- 320 pages
- English
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The Popularization of Medicine
About this book
In the early modern centuries a body of popularized medical writings appeared, telling ordinary people how they could best take care of their own health. Often written be 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 on the different experiences of Britain, the Continent and North America.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The popularization of medicine in early modern England
- 2. Acquiring surgical know-how: occupational and lay instruction in early eighteenth-century London
- 3. Readers, texts, and contexts: vernacular medical works in early modern England
- 4. The popularization of medicine in France, 1650-1900
- 5. The non-naturals made easy
- 6. The popularization of medicine during the Spanish Enlightenment
- 7. Tissot as part of the medical Enlightenment in Hungary
- 8. Spreading medical Enlightenment: the popularization of medicine in Georgian England, and its paradoxes
- 9. 'But all those authors are foreigners': American literary nationalism and domestic medical guides
- 10. 'Mr Scott's case': a view of London medicine in 1825
- Index