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Porter, Roy (ed.), The Popularization of Medicine, 1650-1850, Londres - Nova York, Routledge (The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine), 1992, x + 297 pp.
- Resum
- In the early modern centuries disease was rampant, medicine had few powerful weapons in its armoury, and the provision of professional medical care was patchy. Under such circumstances it is no surprise that a body of popularised medical writings appeared, aiming to explain how ordinary people could best take care of their own health, in the absence of, or by way of supplement to, professional medical care. Often written by doctors, such books gave simple advice for home treatments, while commonly warning of the dangers of magic, quackery, old wive's tales and faith healing. The Popularization of Medicine explores the rise of this form of people's medicine, from the early days of printing to the Victorian age, focusing upon the different experiences of Britain and France, more marginal European nations like Spain and Hungary, and upon North America. It assesses the wider social and cultural history contexts of the tradition: its religious rationales in radical Protestantism, conflicts between elite and popular culture, challenges to medical monopoly, the spread of medical hegemony. And it addresses the problems of the historical interpretation of medical texts that were probably read and used in ways unfamiliar to us nowadays. The history of the popularization of regular medicine has hitherto been neglected. This pioneering volume charts for the first time a major dimension of the history of medicine in culture. Papers from a conference held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London in Jan. 1991.
Contents:
1. The popularization of medicine in early modern England / Andrew Wear (pp. 17-41)
2. Acquiring Surgical Know-How: Occupational and lay instruction in early eighteenth-century London / Phillip Wilson
3. Fissell (1992), "Readers, texts, and contexts ..." (pp. 72-96)
4. The Popularization of Medicine in France, 1650-1900 / Matthew Ramsey
5. The Non-Naturals Made Easy / Antoinette Emch-Deriaz
6. The Popularization of Medicine during the Spanish Enlightenment / Enrique Periguero
7. Tissot as Part of the Medical Enlightenment in Hungary / Maria Szlatky
8. Spreading medical Enlightenment: the popularization of medicine in Georgian England, and its paradoxes / Roy Porter
9. "But all those Authors are Foreigners": American literary nationalism and domestic medical guides / Norman Gevitz
10. "Mr Scott's Case: A view of London medicine in 1825 / Stephen Jacyna
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
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- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
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- URL
- https://books.google.es/books?id=D7KFvTUAVhwC&lpg=P ...
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