| Description |
356 pages : illustrations |
| Series |
Cambridge history of medicine |
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Cambridge monographs on the history of medicine |
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Cambridge history of medicine.
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Cambridge monographs on the history of medicine.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction Roy Porter -- 2. Murders and miracles: lay attitudes towards medicine in classical antiquity Vivian Nutton -- 3. Puritan perceptions of illness in seventeenth century England Andrew Wear -- 4. In sickness and in health: a seventeenth century family's experience Lucinda McCray Beier -- 5. Participant or patient? seventeenth century childbirth from the mother's point of view Adrian Wilson -- 6. Piety and the patient: medicine and religion in eighteenth century Bristol Jonathan Barry -- 7. Cultural habits of illness: the Enlightened and the Pious in eighteenth century Germany Johanna Geyer-Kordesch -- 8. 'The doctor scolds me': the diaries and correspondence of patients in eighteenth century England Joan Lane -- 9. Prescribing the rules of health: self-help and advice in the late eighteenth century Ginnie Smith -- 10. Laymen, doctors and medical knowledge in the eighteenth century: the evidence of the Gentleman's Magazine Roy Porter -- 11. The colonisation of traditional Arabic medicine Ghada Karmi -- Index |
| Analysis |
Medical personnel Attitudes of patients 1600-1800 |
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Medical personnel Attitudes of patients, 1600-1800 |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliograpic footnotes and index |
| Subject |
Health attitudes -- History.
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Medicine -- History.
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Medicine -- Public opinion -- History.
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Attitude to Health -- history
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Attitude to Health.
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History, 17th Century.
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History, 18th Century.
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History of medicine, 17th century
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History of medicine, 18th century
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| Author |
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
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| LC no. |
85013257 |
| ISBN |
0521309158 |
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