Professional and Popular Medicine in France 1770-1830 - The Social World of Medical Practice

Zusammenfassung This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources! it provides a richly detailed examination of medical practice as it existed in France during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables, maps, and illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Professional Medicine: 1. The regular medical network at the end of the Old Regime; 2. The medical profession in the early nineteenth century; Part II. Popular Medicine: 3. Irregulars: itinerants; 4. Irregulars: sedentary empirics; 5. Folk healers: maiges and witches; Part III. Toward a Social Interpretation: 6. The structure of medical practice: an overview; Afterword; Appendices; Notes; Glossary and note on French money; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mathew Ramsey, Matthew Ramsey
• Mitarbeit: Colin Jones (Herausgeber), Charles Rosenberg (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521524605
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52460-5
• Seiten: 428
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; SCIENCE / History, MEDICAL / History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, C 1700 To C 1800