title: [Ernst von Metternich (1656-1727). A patient-focused view of the medical marketplace around 1720].
abstract: In his medical diary the physician Johann Christoph Götz from Nuremberg recorded his visits as well as his consiliary correspondence. The case of Count Ernst of Metternich who dwelled in Ratisbon and suffered from a bladder stone is particularly well documented. Thus, the source which is focusing the doctor permits to take a look at a section of the medical market managed by the patient around 1720. Besides the Medicus ordinarius Metternich's specific network, the patient's network, comprised quite a number of local or transmigratory doctors, surgeons or lay healers as well as (former) invalids, whom he consulted in direct interviews or--in the case of Götz--by letter. The example reveals in which way the medical market was determined by the ego-network. Analyzing this section of the market, which becomes visible through the interaction between Metternich and Götz, one can profit from Pierre Bourdieu's conception of different forms of capital. Financial capital, the exchange of goods or services against money, seems of minor importance. In lieu thereof, different cohesions become obvious, in which social, cultural and symbolical capital could become decisive for the doctor's as well as for the patient's actions and assertive for the market.
authors: Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum, Anatomiestrasse 18-20, D-85049 Ingolstadt. kay.jankrift@iek.uni-augsburg.de
authors: Kay Peter
authors: KP
authors: Jankrift
authors: Annemarie
authors: A
authors: Kinzelbach
authors: Marion Maria
authors: MM
authors: Ruisinger
mesh_terms: D058006:General Practice / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049671:History, 18th Century; D010819:Physician's Role / Q000266:history; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations