The Popularization of Medicine

ISBN-13: 9780415072175 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 297 str.

Roy Porter

Opis

In early modern centuries disease was rampant, and it was no surprise that popularized medical writings appeared, aiming to explain how ordinary people could take care of their own health. Often written by doctors, these writings gave advice for home treatments, and warned of the dangers of magic, quackery, old wives' tales and faith healing.
"The Popularization of Medicine" explores the rise of this form of people's medicine, from the early days of printing to the Victorian age, focusing upon the different experiences of Britain and France, more marginal countries like Spain and Hungary, and upon North America.

Recenzje

` a thought-provoking entry a complex world.' - EHR

Spis treści

1. The Varieties of Popular Medicine around 1700: anything new? Andrew Wear 2. Acquiring Surgical Know-How: Occupational and lay instruction in early eighteenth-century London Phillip Wilson 3. Popularization and Vernacular Medicine: The reader and the text Mary Fissel 4. The Popularization of Medicine in France, 1650-1900 Matthew Ramsey 5. The Non-Naturals Made Easy Antoinette Emch-Deriaz 6. Popularizing Medicine During the Spanish Enlightenment Enrique Periguero 7. Tissot as Part of Medical Enlightenment in Hungary Maria Szlatky 8. All those Authors are Foreigners: The Americanization of domestic medical literature Norman Gevitz 9. Mr Scott's Case: A view of London medicine in 1825 Stephen Jacyna

O autorze

Roy Porter