Bibliograph

Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550–1860, by Roy Porter

Type

Label

Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550–1860, by Roy Porter

Language

eng

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550–1860

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1086451667

Responsibility statement

by Roy Porter

Series statement

Springer

Summary

Incorporates the findings of recent researches into hospital history, provincial medical history and the history of childbirth, and draws upon new perspectives offered by women's studies in the social history of medicine. It also examines the impact of disease upon English people.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Notes on References -- Editor's Preface -- Introduction to Second Introduction -- Disease, Death and Doctors in Tudor and Stuart England -- The Practice of Medicine in Early Modern England -- Experiences and Actions: Countering Illness in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Medicine in the Market Economy of the Georgian Century -- The Medical Profession and the State in the Nineteenth Century -- The Role of Medicine: What Did It Achieve? -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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