Tag: Medical history
Social distancing under the Habsburg Empire
In the course of its history, Europe experienced many epidemics before Corona. For centuries, states have sought to contain them through active countermeasures. The Graz-based historian Christian Promitzer explored how scourges such as plague and cholera were combatted under the Habsburg Empire in the 19th century, finding some parallels with today. Continue reading “Social distancing under the Habsburg Empire”
History of pain between religion and medicine
Research teams in Innsbruck and Antwerp are exploring a still rather neglected subject – the phenomenon of pain from the perspective of 19th century Catholicism. At that time, religious traditions were supposedly at odds with medical developments in pain therapy – but the research results provide a different picture. Continue reading “History of pain between religion and medicine”