Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850

First published in 1987. Even as the professionalism of medicine progressed, many sufferers continued to rely on what would now be termed "fringe" practitioners - quacks, backstreet surgeons, bone-setters, Thomsonian botanists, holists and naturalists. The essays collected in this volume all present new research on this fascinating and diverse period in the history of medicine.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Treating the Wages of Sin: Venereal Disease and Specialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain W. F. Bynum 2. Publicity and the Public Good: Presenting Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Bristol Jonathan Barry 3. Orthodoxy and Fringe: Medicine in Late Georgian Bristol Michael Neve 4. ‘I Think Ye both Quacks’: The Controversy between Dr Theodor Myersbach and Dr John Coakley Lettsom Roy Porter 5. Property Rights and the Right to Health: The Regulation of Secret Remedies in France, 1789-1815 Matthew Ramsey 6. ‘The Vile Race of Quacks with which this Country Infested’ Irvine Loudon 7. The Orthodox Fringe: The Origins of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain S. W. F. Holloway 8. Bones of Contention? Orthodox Medicine and the Mystery of the Bone-setter’s Craft Roger Cooter 9 . Physical Puritanism and Sanitary Science: Material and Immaterial Beliefs in Popular Physiology, 1650-1840 Virginia Smith 10. Early Victorian Radicals and the Medical Fringe J. F. C. Harrison 11. Social Context and Medical Theory in the Demarcation of Nineteenth-century Boundaries P. S. Brown 12. Medical Sectarianism, Therapeutic Conflict, and the Shaping of Orthodox Professional Identity in Antebellum American Medicine John Harley Warner; Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter

Zusammenfassung

First published in 1987. Even as the professionalism of medicine progressed, many sufferers continued to rely on what would now be termed "fringe" practitioners – quacks, backstreet surgeons, bone-setters, Thomsonian botanists, holists and naturalists. The essays collected in this volume all present new research on this fascinating and diverse period in the history of medicine.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: W F Bynum, W. F. Bynum, W. F. Porter Bynum, Bynum W. F., Roy Porter
• Mitarbeit: W. F. Bynum (Herausgeber), Roy Porter (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138391284
• ISBN: 978-1-138-39128-4
• Seiten: 282
• Serien: Routledge Library Editions: Science and Technology in the Nineteenth Century; Routledge Library Editions: Science and Technology in the Nineteenth Century
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, History and Archaeology, C 1700 To C 1800