Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London: Patronage, Physicians, and Irregular Practitioners, 1550-1640

ISBN-13: 9780199257805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 432 str.

Margaret Pelling

Opis

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the best single record we have which details the many medical practitioners in early modern London. It reveals the attitudes and realities in the conflict between the College of Physicians and the practitioners, whom the College regarded as illicit or irregular. In so doing, the book challenges the assumptions we make about the dominant professional values of modern western society.

Recenzje

The result of many years' painstaking research, this is an important and multi-faceted contribution to our knowledge of English medicine in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries - a period which has attracted much less historical attention than that after 1640.