Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680Cambridge University Press, 2000 M11 16 - 496 páginas This is a major synthesis of the knowledge and practice of early modern English medicine in its social and cultural contexts. The book vividly maps out some central areas: remedies (and how they were made credible), notions of disease, advice on preventive medicine and on healthy living, and how surgeons worked upon the body and their understanding of what they were doing. The structures of practice and knowledge examined in the first part of the book came to be challenged in the later seventeenth century, when the 'new science' began to overturn the foundation of established knowledge. However, as the second part of the book shows, traditional medical practice was so well entrenched in English culture that much of it continued into the eighteenth century. Various changes did however occur, which set the agenda for later medical treatment and which are discussed in the final chapter. |
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... concerns and interests of the anthropologist's own society . Like the ' naïve ' observer I have tried to recreate the knowledge and practice of that foreign culture : early modern medicine . ' The subject has been strangely neglected ...
... concerns and interests of the anthropologist's own society . Like the ' naïve ' observer I have tried to recreate the knowledge and practice of that foreign culture : early modern medicine . ' The subject has been strangely neglected ...
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... concern about the role of medicine in our societies . Such ' presentist ' input has always acted to make historical writing relevant to its age ; it has also had the potential to distort the past , as with the Whig history of the ...
... concern about the role of medicine in our societies . Such ' presentist ' input has always acted to make historical writing relevant to its age ; it has also had the potential to distort the past , as with the Whig history of the ...
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... concerned with the origin of beliefs as in some traditional history . Much of early modern medical knowledge could be found in the Middle Ages and in Greek and Roman times , but this does not lessen its reality for people living in the ...
... concerned with the origin of beliefs as in some traditional history . Much of early modern medical knowledge could be found in the Middle Ages and in Greek and Roman times , but this does not lessen its reality for people living in the ...
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... concerned with preserving social order . But much of the medical knowledge of this time was socially constructed only in the weak sense of being produced by human beings , or at most of being a convenient way for a group of ...
... concerned with preserving social order . But much of the medical knowledge of this time was socially constructed only in the weak sense of being produced by human beings , or at most of being a convenient way for a group of ...
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... concern with putrefaction as one of the causes of disease and death . I have been concerned to show how putrefaction and corruption are pivotal to early modern medicine . The two chapters on plague also illustrate this point , as well ...
... concern with putrefaction as one of the causes of disease and death . I have been concerned to show how putrefaction and corruption are pivotal to early modern medicine . The two chapters on plague also illustrate this point , as well ...
Contenido
Setting the scene | 11 |
Remedies | 46 |
Diseases | 104 |
Preventive medicine healthy lifestyles and healthy environments | 154 |
Surgery the hand work of medicine | 210 |
Plague and medical knowledge | 275 |
The prevention and cure of the plague | 314 |
Conflict and revolution in medicine the Helmontians | 353 |
The failure of the Helmontian revolution in practical medicine | 399 |
Changes and continuities | 434 |
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