Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol
ISBN-10
0521526930
ISBN-13
9780521526937
Category
Medical
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
2002-07-04
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
Mary Elizabeth Fissell, Mary E. Fissell

Description

In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown out these voices. This book argues that changes in the relationship between rich and poor underlay this rise in medicine's authority.

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