Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London - Patronage, Physicians, and Irregular Practitioners 1550-1640

Zusatztext The result of many years' painstaking research, this is an important and multi-faceted contribution to our knowledge of English medicine in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries - a period which has attracted much less historical attention than that after 1640. Klappentext This is the first comprehensive analysis of the best single record we have which details the many medical practitioners in early modern London. It reveals the attitudes and realities in the conflict between the College of Physicians and the practitioners, whom the College regarded as illicit or irregular. In so doing, the book challenges the assumptions we make about the dominant professional values of modern western society. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive analysis of the single record, which details the multifarious medical practitioners in early modern London. It reveals the attitudes and realities in the conflict between the College of Physicians and the practitioners, male and female, whom the College regarded as illicit or irregular. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Conventions List of Figures and Tables 1: Introduction: The College and the Middling Sort 2: Anatomy of an Anxious Institution: Plague and Seasonality 3: Censorial Activity: The Burdens of Officebearing 4: Initiation and Pursuit: Sources of Information for a Capital in Flux 5: Irregular Practitioners: A Wilderness of Mirrors 6: Gender Compromises: The Female Practitioner and her Connections 7: Active Patients: Patrons and Parties to Contract 8: The Effects of Confrontation: Demeanour, Penalties, and Patronage 9: Conclusions: Defining the Majority Appendixes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Margaret Pelling, Margaret (Reader in Social History - Medi Pelling, Margaret (Reader in Social History - Medicine Pelling, Margaret White Pelling, Pelling Margaret, Frances White, White Frances
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2003
• EAN: 9780199257805
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925780-5
• No. of pages: 428
• Series: Oxford Studies in Social History; Oxford Studies in Social Histo; Oxford Studies in Social History; Oxford Studies in Social Histo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; London, Greater London, General practice, European History, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Practice Management & Reimbursement, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), History of Medicine, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General Practice / Family Medicine, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700