2018/12/03 by Ursula Rokitansky-Tilscher · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · #History of Medicine Studies #Medical History and Research #Neurology and Historical Studies
paper · doi:10.14220/9783737009164.787
openalex publication_date 2018/12/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/08
The scientifically orientated Viennese Medicine arose from collaboration of pathological anatomy and clinical medicine. The recognizing of the clinical-pathological correlation enabled Carl Rokitansky to describe the course of a disease and make a diagnosis. Rokitansky’s systematic classification of diseases, documented in the Manual of Pathological Anatomy, published in three volumes between 1842 and 1846 led to medical specialisation in Vienna and beyond the borders of Austria and points out how the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna became an interdisciplinary area of knowledge with international attractiveness for studies in scientific medicine. His methodology concerning the preparation of his handbookwas influenced by his humanities attitude. In this essay, the impact of Rokitanskyûs handbook is presented for the first time by sources from the Rokitansky family archive, focusing in particular on international reception and the resulting networks. The article sees itself as a research launch and concludes with desiderata for further work in order to shed more light on sources from the Rokitansky family archive as prerequisites for the international success of Viennesemedicine. This could contribute to a better understanding of how the Medical Faculty of the UniversityofVienna, starting from the General Hospital, became an interdisciplinary knowledge space of international attractiveness for scientific and medical studies after the publication of the Handbook of Pathological Anatomy. This article therefore focuses in particular on the international reception of Rokitansky’s Manual of Pathological Anatomy in the medical world.