Robert Jütte,<i>Krankheit und Gesundheit in der Frühen Neuzeit</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As a prolific historian and director of the Robert Bosch Institut für Geschichte der Medizin in Stuttgart, Robert Jütte has influenced a generation of specialists in the social history of European medicine. With this volume he provides an overview for a wide readership that is a thorough and evocative portrayal of the challenges posed by disease in the early modern period. The first two main chapters offer accounts of the principal maladies that Europeans faced before the nineteenth century. Jütte divides the discussion between infectious diseases, such as plague, smallpox and malaria, and chronic diseases including gout, cancer and scrofula. The sketches are concise, yet lively and informative, ranging widely to include useful discussions of ancient concepts, religious responses to diseases and anecdotes of individual sufferers. Notably, the section on epilepsy describes how many eighteenth-century observers discerned the influence of spiritual or supernatural influences alongside physiological forces. Here and elsewhere, the work effectively balances the desired thoroughness with the interests of a general reader. Occasional references to the contemporary world reinforce the contrast between past and present, indicating, for example, the increased significance of chronic diseases in the last century. While the work focuses on topics of broad interest, brisk passages introduce key historiographic concepts, such as Thomas McKeown's thesis concerning nutrition and mortality or Erving Goffman's conceptualisation of stigma.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".