Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860This study examines the impact of disease upon the English and their responses to it before the widespread availability and public provision of medical care. The author incorporates into this second edition new perspectives offered by recent research into provincial medical history, the history of childbirth and women's studies in the social history of medicine. He begins by sketching a picture of the threats posed by disease to population levels and social continuity from Tudor times to the Industrial Revolution, going on to consider the nature and development of the medical profession, attitudes to doctors and disease and the growing commitment of the state to public health. Drawing together a wide range of often fragmentary material, this book presents a guide to the history of medicine and to English social history. |
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Page 24
... diarists like Samuel Pepys and the Puritan Richard Baxter , mirrored larger concerns . Remedies against sickness , omens foreshadowing dying , consolations for sufferers : these mattered in a popular culture passed down orally , almost ...
... diarists like Samuel Pepys and the Puritan Richard Baxter , mirrored larger concerns . Remedies against sickness , omens foreshadowing dying , consolations for sufferers : these mattered in a popular culture passed down orally , almost ...
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... diarists show , sickness was interpreted as packed with moral , spiritual and religious messages . Often it was read as the operation of natural justice . Thus adulterers would contract venereal infections ; the idle would be punished ...
... diarists show , sickness was interpreted as packed with moral , spiritual and religious messages . Often it was read as the operation of natural justice . Thus adulterers would contract venereal infections ; the idle would be punished ...
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... diarists routinely dosed themselves with tonics , gave themselves purges and emetics , and called in the local barber - surgeon to let blood , as steps in self - administered programmes of health . In the eighteenth and nineteenth ...
... diarists routinely dosed themselves with tonics , gave themselves purges and emetics , and called in the local barber - surgeon to let blood , as steps in self - administered programmes of health . In the eighteenth and nineteenth ...
Contents
Introduction to the Second Edition | 6 |
Countering Illness in | 23 |
The Medical Profession and the State in | 48 |
Copyright | |
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Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860 Roy Porter,Economic History Society Limited preview - 1995 |
Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860 Roy Porter,Economic History Society No preview available - 1995 |
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