Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550–1680
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- Author: Andrew Wear, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London
- Date Published: December 2000
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521558273
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This is a major synthesis of the knowledge and practice of early modern English medicine, as expressed in vernacular texts set in their social and cultural contexts. The book vividly maps out some central areas: remedies (and how they were made credible), notions of disease, advice on preventive medicine and on healthy living, and how and why surgeons worked on the body. In particular, two of the most high-profile diseases of the age--the pox and the plague--are discussed in detail, and their treatment analyzed.
Read more- The first extensive account of early modern English medical knowledge and practice set in its cultural and social context
- Makes new historiographical approaches and gives an in-depth coverage of many different aspects of medicine
- A major contribution to the understanding of continuity and change in medicine during the era of the 'new science'
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"[Wear's] discussion of medicine generally in the period after 1665 is always fresh, well-informed, and illuminating. There is much good substance in this intelligent study...a valuable reference for scholars." Albion
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- Date Published: December 2000
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521558273
- length: 506 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 29 mm
- weight: 0.73kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Setting the scene
2. Remedies
3. Diseases
4. Preventive medicine: healthy lifestyles and healthy environments
5. Surgery: the handwork of medicine
6. Plague and medical knowledge
7. The prevention and cure of plague
8. Conflict and revolution in medicine
9. The failure of the Helmontian revolution in the practice of medicine
10. Changes and continuities.
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