The Medical World of Early Modern France

ISBN-13: 9780198227502 / Angielski

L W B Brockliss

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This is a unique history of French medicine between the sixteenth cent ury and the French Revolution. Brockliss focuses on physicians, surgeo ns, and apothecaries, providing an overview of long-term changes in th eir ideas about medicine and their craft. But he also discusses other denizens of the medical world-- quacks, charlatans, wise women, midwiv es, herbalist and others--setting them within the broader context of s ocial, economic, demographic, and cultural change.

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magisterial book