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Patients and practitioners: lay perceptions of medicine in pre-industrial society
Ray Porter-
Frontmatter
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1 Introduction (ROY PORTER, page 1)
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2 Murders and miracles: Lay attitudes towards medicine in classical antiquity (VIVIAN NUTTON, page 23)
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3 Puritan perceptions of illness in seventeenth century England (ANDREW WEAR, page 55)
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4 In sickness and in health: A seventeenth century family's experience (LUCINDA MCCRAY BEIER, page 101)
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5 Participant or patient? Seventeenth century childbirth from the mother's point of view (ADRIAN WILSON, page 129)
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6 Piety and the patient: Medicine and religion in eighteenth century Bristol (JONATHAN BARRY, page 145)
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7 Cultural habits of illness: The Enlightened and the Pious in eighteenth century Germany (JOHANNA GEYER-KORDESCH, page 177)
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8 'The doctor scolds me': The diaries and correspondence of patients in eighteenth century England (JOAN LANE, page 205)
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9 Prescribing the rules of health: Self-help and advice in the late eighteenth century (GINNIE SMITH, page 249)
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10 Laymen, doctors and medical knowledge in the eighteenth century: The evidence of the Gentleman's Magazine (ROY PORTER, page 283)
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11 The colonisation of traditional Arabic medicine (GHADA KARMI, page 315)
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Index (page 341)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JSocH | 21.2 (Winter 1987): 360-362 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3788158 |
ENHR | 102.404 (Jul. 1987): 682-684 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/571902 |
HWJ | 24 (Autumn 1987): 191-194 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4288794 |
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Published: c1985
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9781139085267 (ebook)
- 9780521530613 (paper)
- 9780521309158 (hardcover)