Ideas and Practices in the History of Medicine, 1650-1820

ISBN-13: 9780367739744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 276 str.

Adrian Wilson

Opis

Most of these essays touch upon, and some of them are exclusively concerned with, small scale social processes, for example the routines of the all-female early-modern childbirth ritual, the different ways that male practitioners were summoned to such occasions, the functioning of voluntary hospitals and the protocols underlying patient records. Wh

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction. Part 1 Childbirth and Midwifery: William Hunter and the varieties of man-midwifery; The ceremony of childbirth and its interpretation; A memorial of Eleanor Willughby, a seventeenth-century midwife. Part 2 Medical Institutions: The politics of medical improvement in early Hanoverian London; Conflict, consensus and charity: politics and the provincial voluntary hospitals in the eighteenth century; The Birmingham General Hospital and its public, 1765-79. Part 3 Medical Concepts and Practices: On the history of disease-concepts: the case of pleurisy; Porter versus Foucault on the ’birth of the clinic’. Index.

O autorze

Adrian Wilson is Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine at the University of Leeds, UK.