Doctor of society : Thomas Beddoes and the sick trade in late-enlightenment England
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Doctor of society : Thomas Beddoes and the sick trade in late-enlightenment England
（Routledge library editions, . The history of social welfare ; v. 17）
Routledge, 2017, c1992
- : hbk
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Routledge, 1992
Bibliography: p. 195-226
Includes index
Set ISBN for subseries "The history of social welfare": 9781138203303
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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
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