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 ...
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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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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 850grams, ISBN: 9780521558273.
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Good. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Scattered underlining and markings. Rubbing to bottom edge. Light wear. viii, 496 pages: illustrations. From the library of Dr. Gert H. Brieger. Dr. Brieger was the Chairman of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins.
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. viii, 496pp., index. Exterior nearly as new; a small handful of faint pencil marks to interior; previous owner's name cut away from front endpaper top edge.