Description |
1 online resource (x, 189 pages) : color illustrations |
Contents |
From the old university to Stephansplatz -- From Stephansplatz through the inner city -- Around the Ring -- Through the Old General Hospital -- The New General Hospital and the "New Clinics" -- The White City and Lemoniberg -- Billroth House, Society of Physicians 9th District, 8 Frankgasse -- Der Wiener Zentralfriedhof /Vienna Central Cemetery 11th District, 234 Simmeringer Hauptstrasse Open throughout the year -- Pharmacy in bloom. Botanical Gardens of the University of Vienna -- Art Collections of the Belvedere -- Schönbrunn -- Monument to a dream -- The muscle man and the wax Venus -- No. 19 Berggasse A visit to the archaeologist of the soul. Where the most famous couch in the world does not -- unfortunately -- stand -- The Narrenturm -- unique in both medical and architectural terms -- Museum Tour |
Summary |
"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 cana (TM)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 medica |
Notes |
"Translation into English, Roderick O'Donovan"--Title page verso |
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Print version record |
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Medicine -- Austria -- Vienna -- History
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Medicine -- History.
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Museums.
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History of Medicine
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Museums
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history of medicine.
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museums (institutions)
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TRAVEL.
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History of Medicine -- Austria.
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Museums -- Austria.
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Medicine -- Austria -- Vienna -- History.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Museums
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Medicine
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SUBJECT |
Vienna (Austria) -- Guidebooks
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Austria |
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Vienna (Austria)
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Austria -- Vienna
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Genre/Form |
travel guidebooks.
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Guidebooks
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History
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Guidebooks.
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Guides touristiques.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Nanut, Michael, 1960-
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ISBN |
9783211489499 |
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3211489495 |
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3211489525 |
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9783211489529 |
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1281138177 |
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9781281138170 |
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9786611138172 |
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661113817X |
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