title: [Loneliness of the physician and the "vital drive for history". On the historical self concept of medicine by Richard Koch].
abstract: This article tries to identify the theory of medical history in the work of Richard Koch (1882-1949). Rejecting the wide-spread notion of medicine as a science he vigorously argued for a self-image of medicine as an art. From that point of view he built up his theory of medical history and histoography. He wanted medical histoography to be part of practical medicine.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Theorie und Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Münster.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Wiesing
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D006663:Historiography; D006666:History of Medicine; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008132:Loneliness; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*; D010819:Physician's Role
vernacular_title: Die Einsamkeit des Arztes und der "lebendige Drang nach Geschichte". Zum historischen Selbstverständnis der Medizin bei Richard Koch.