Patients and practitioners: lay perceptions of medicine in pre-industrial society

Ray Porter

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Frontmatter
1 Introduction (ROY PORTER, page 1)
2 Murders and miracles: Lay attitudes towards medicine in classical antiquity (VIVIAN NUTTON, page 23)
3 Puritan perceptions of illness in seventeenth century England (ANDREW WEAR, page 55)
4 In sickness and in health: A seventeenth century family's experience (LUCINDA MCCRAY BEIER, page 101)
5 Participant or patient? Seventeenth century childbirth from the mother's point of view (ADRIAN WILSON, page 129)
6 Piety and the patient: Medicine and religion in eighteenth century Bristol (JONATHAN BARRY, page 145)
7 Cultural habits of illness: The Enlightened and the Pious in eighteenth century Germany (JOHANNA GEYER-KORDESCH, page 177)
8 'The doctor scolds me': The diaries and correspondence of patients in eighteenth century England (JOAN LANE, page 205)
9 Prescribing the rules of health: Self-help and advice in the late eighteenth century (GINNIE SMITH, page 249)
10 Laymen, doctors and medical knowledge in the eighteenth century: The evidence of the Gentleman's Magazine (ROY PORTER, page 283)
11 The colonisation of traditional Arabic medicine (GHADA KARMI, page 315)
Index (page 341)

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Published: c1985

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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