Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

Zusammenfassung In early modern England! housewives! clergymen! bloodletters! herb women! and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century! however! medicine had begun to drown out these voices. This book argues that changes in the relationship between rich and poor underlay this rise in medicine's authority. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables, figures, and maps; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Everyone their own physician; 3. The marketplace of medicine; 4. charity universal?; 5. The client; 6. The abdication of the governors; 7. Surgeons and the medicalization of the hospital; 8. The patient's perspective; 9. The reform of popular medicine; 10. Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Mary E. Fissell, Fissell Mary E.
• Assisted by: Charles Rosenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.07.2002
• EAN: 9780521526937
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52693-7
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General