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9780415072175

The Popularization of Medicine

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415072175

  • ISBN10:

    0415072174

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1992-11-10
  • Publisher: Routledge

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In early modern centuries disease was rampant, and it was no surprise that popularized medical writings appeared, aiming to explain how ordinary people could take care of their own health. Often written by doctors, these writings gave advice for home treatments, and warned of the dangers of magic, quackery, old wives' tales and faith healing. The Popularization of Medicineexplores 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 countries like Spain and Hungary, and upon North America.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vii
Notes on contributors viii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction 1(16)
Roy Porter
The popularization of medicine in early modern England
17(25)
Andrew Wear
Acquiring surgical know-how: occupational and lay instruction in early eighteenth-century London
42(30)
Philip K. Wilson
Readers, texts, and contexts: vernacular medical works in early modern England
72(25)
Mary E. Fissell
The popularization of medicine in France, 1650-1900
97(37)
Mathew Ramsey
The non-naturals made easy
134(26)
Antoinette Emch-Deriaz
The popularization of medicine during the Spanish Enlightenment
160(34)
Enrique Perdiguero
Tissot as part of the medical Enlightenment in Hungary
194(21)
Maria Szlatky
Spreading medical Enlightenment: the popularization of medicine in Georgian England, and its paradoxes
215(17)
Roy Porter
`But all those authors are foreigners': American literary nationalism and domestic medical guides
232(20)
Norman Gevitz
`Mr Scott's case': a view of London medicine in 1825
252(35)
Stephen Jacyna
Index 287

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