The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century

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List of illustrations
List of tables
Preface
Introduction
1. The politics of medical improvement in early Hanoverian London Adrian Wilson
2. Medicine to calm the mind: Boerhaave's medical system, and why it was adopted in Edinburgh Andrew Cunningham
3. Georg Ernst Stahl's radical Pietist medicine and its influence on the German Enlightenment Johanna Geyer-Kordesch
4. Sickness and the soul: Stahl, Hoffman and Sauvages on pathology Roger French
5. Sauvages's nosology: medical enlightenment in Montpellier Julian Martin
6. Honour and property: the structure of professional disputes in eighteenth-century English medicine David Harley
7. Medicine, morality and the politics of Berkeley's tar-water Marina Benjamin
8. North America, a western outpost of European medicine Helen Brock
9. John Haygarth, smallpox and religious Dissent in eighteenth-century England Francis M. Lobo
10 'Living in the light': dispensaries, philanthropy and medical reform in late-eighteenth-century London Robert Kilpatrick
11. Measuring virtue: eudiometry, enlightenment and pneumatic medicine Simon Schaffer
Index.

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