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1 online resource (283 pages) |
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Routledge Library Editions: Science and Technology in the Nineteenth Century Ser. ; v. 1 |
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Routledge Library Editions: Science and Technology in the Nineteenth Century Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Treating the Wages of Sin: Venereal Disease and Specialism in Eighteenth-century Britain; 2. Publicity and the Public Good: Presenting Medicine in Eighteenth-century Bristol; 3. Orthodoxy and Fringe: Medicine in Late Georgian Bristol; 4. 'I Think Ye Both Quacks': The Controversy between Dr Theodor Myersbach and Dr John Coakley Lettsom; 5. Property Rights and the Right to Health: The Regulation of Secret Remedies in France, 1789-1815 |
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6. 'The Vile Race of Quacks with which this Country is Infested'7. The Orthodox Fringe: The Origins of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain; 8. Bones of Contention? Orthodox Medicine and the Mystery of the Bone-setter's Craft; 9. Physical Puritanism and Sanitary Science: Materialand and Immaterial Beliefs in Popular Physiology,1650-1840; 10. Early Victorian Radicals and the Medical Fringe; 11. Social Context and Medical Theory in the Demarcation of Nineteenth-century Boundaries |
| Summary |
First published in 1987. Even as the professionalism of medicine progressed, many sufferers continued to rely on what would now be termed "fringe" practitioners - quacks, backstreet surgeons, bone-setters, Thomsonian botanists, holists and naturalists. Many types of fringe medicine were popular in particular circles or reflected the political or religious preoccupations of their practitioners. Anti-establishment radicals might favour natural medicine, Christian Scientists would reject the medical aid, "Physical Puritans" would concentrate on homeopathy, hydropathy and vegetarianism to create health rather than counter disease. Some diseases, particularly venereal ones, allowed practitioners to play unscrupulously on the guilt of their patients. The end of the period saw professionalism establish itself in many areas, for example with the foundation in 1852 of the Pharmaceutical Society, and conflicts of fringe and orthodoxy became the fiercer. The essays collected in this volume all present new research on this fascinating and diverse period in the history of medicine |
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12. Medical Sectarianism, Therapeutic Conflict, and the Shaping of Orthodox Professional Identity in Antebellum American MedicineIndex |
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Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
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Medicine -- History -- 19th century
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History, 18th Century
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History, 19th Century
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Medical Theory.
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Physical Puritanism.
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Scientific History.
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Social Medicine.
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19th Century.
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Medicine
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780429749889 |
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0429749880 |
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9780429749896 |
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0429749899 |
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9780429749872 |
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0429749872 |
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9780429422744 |
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0429422741 |
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