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.

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• Authors: Mathew Ramsey, Matthew Ramsey
• Assisted by: Colin Jones (Editor), Charles Rosenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521524605
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52460-5
• No. of pages: 428
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General