Patients, power and the poor in eighteenth-century bristol
Auteur :
Fissell, Mary E.
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521400473
Date de publication :
25 oct. 1991
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
566 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown out these voices. This book argues that changes in the relationship between rich and poor underlay this rise in medicine's authority.