‘That senescence itself is an illness’: A transitional medical concept of age and ageing in the eighteenth century
Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: Senectus ipsa morbus est ... : Jacob Hutter (1708-1768) used this provocative hypo- thesis to draw attention to his doctoral thesis of the same title which was published in 1732 at the University of Halle in Central Germany.Hutter was an otherwise practically unknown figure, who later worked in his native Transylvania as a doctor
Source: Medical History
Author: Daniel Schäfer
Institution: University of Cologne
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2148734035