| Vienna - A Doctor's Guide: 15 Walking Tours Through Vienna's Medical History 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Regal, Wolfgang (Author), Nanut, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 3211489495 ISBN-13: 9783211489499 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $61.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: "The streets of Vienna are paved with history of medicine," the famous Viennese writer and journalist Karl Kraus could have said. In fact, an attentive visitor can?t move through the city without being reminded by all the street names, historical buildings, monuments or memorial stones that Vienna has been a capital of medicine where students and doctors from all over the world came to learn. This city guide is meant for all the visitors of this fascinating city, who are interested in the history of medicine. 15 walks through the city show the reader the traces of the old medical Vienna: the Fools? Tower, Freud's private practice and apartment, the workplaces of many famous physicians, through the Old General Hospital, the old university, or the most important pathological museums. Many unknown details and anecdotes are included as well as a short history of Vienna and some gourmet tips and the famous Viennese coffee shops for relaxing. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Pharmacy - Medical | History - Architecture | Reference |
| Dewey: 914.360 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.96" W x 7.49" (0.74 lbs) 190 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Vienna - medically. One can look at Vienna from this perspective, too. There are traces to be found almost everywhere in the city, as not all that long ago Vienna was, from the viewpoint of medical history, regarded as the "Mecca of Medicine". This book describes a total of 15 walking tours through old medical Vienna. Naturally, these tours are concentrated on the inner city and the ninth district; the former was once the heart of mediaeval Vienna while the Allgemeines Krankenhaus (General Hospital) was established in Alsergrund, as the ninth district is known. However, a number of tours lead visitors outside the city and reveal Vienna from a more hidden perspective, as they lie somewhat outside the beaten tourist path and so have their own special attraction. Finding one's way around this book - and hopefully also around Vienna - is easy. Having decided on your tour you can orient yourself according to the respective overview map. But, as man doth not live by medicine alone, there are also a number of notes on art history and a list of good cafés and restaurants. This allows the experiences to be digested in an appropriately Viennese way. A separate museum tour is devoted to museums without fixed opening hours, which contain special collections that exist only in Vienna. |