The Popularization of Medicine

ISBN-13: 9780415514873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 308 str.

Roy Porter

Opis

In the early modern centuries a body of popularized medical writings appeared, telling ordinary people how they could best take care of their own health. Often written be doctors, such books gave simple advice for home treatments, while commonly warning of the dangers of magic, quackery, old wive's 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 on the different experiences of Britain, the Continent and 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