Doctor of Society

Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England

Roy Porter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-69881-9 (ISBN)

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First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession. Roy Porter argues that the outlook of the age of Enlightenment was crucially important in the creation of modern thinking about disease, doctors and society. To illustrate this viewpoint, he focuses on Thomas Beddoes, a prominent doctor of the eighteenth century and examines his challenging, pugnacious, radical and often amusing views on a wide range of issues concerning the place of illness and medicine in society. Many modern debates in medicine continue to echo the topics which Beddoes himself discussed in his ever-trenchant and provocative manner.

This book will be of interest to those studying the history of medicine, social history and the Enlightenment.

Roy Porter

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction 2. Life 3. The eighteenth-century medical milieu 4. The advancement of scientific medicine 4. The problem patient 6. Enlightenment and pathology 7. Cashing in on vulgar errors 8. Reforming the profession 9. Instructing the people 10. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.05.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-138-69881-4 / 1138698814
ISBN-13	978-1-138-69881-9 / 9781138698819
Zustand	Neuware