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Medicine in an Age of Revolution is concerned with the interaction between religion, politics, and medicine in an age of revolutionary upheaval associated with the civil wars in Britain in the mid-seventeenth century. As medical and scientific thinking underwent radical revision, its impact was keenly felt in religious and political circles.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The Premature Death of a Renaissance Commonplace: the Body Politic in Puritan England, 1640-1660
- 3: Providing 'Physick for the Body Politick': The Politicisation of Healers and Healing in England, 1640-1660
- 4: 'By Virtue of Our Hermetick Physick, the Head, Heart, and Hands of Hierophants Might be Purified': The Society of Chemical Physicians and Medical Reform in Restoration England
- 5: Healers and Healing in the First Age of Party: Medicine, Politics, and Dissent
- 6: 'Every Corporation a Politick Pest-House': Medicine, Anglicanism, and the Tory Reaction, 1660-1688
- 7: Conclusion
- Appendix 1: A biographical index of signatories in favour of the creation of a Society of Chymical Physicians (1665)
- Appendix 2: (a) ejected ministers and the practise of medicine; (b) sons of ejected ministers and the practise of medicine; (c) sons of ejected ministers apprenticed to London apothecaries
- Appendix 3: List of medical mayors
About the author
Peter Elmer is a historian of early modern Britain and taught for seventeen years at the Open University before becoming a research fellow at Exeter University. There, along with his colleague Jonathan Barry, he was engaged in a five-year project entitled 'The Medical World of Early Modern England, Ireland and Wales, c.1500-1715', a large prosopographical study of the medical 'profession'. He is retired but remains busy working on a large online database of medical practitioners.
Summary
Medicine in an Age of Revolution is concerned with the interaction between religion, politics, and medicine in an age of revolutionary upheaval associated with the civil wars in Britain in the mid-seventeenth century. As medical and scientific thinking underwent radical revision, its impact was keenly felt in religious and political circles.
