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Divine doctors and dreadful distempers : how practicing medicine became a respectable profession / Christi Sumich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sumich, Christi Keating, author.
- Series:
- Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 91.
- Clio medica ; 91
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--History.
- Physicians.
- Medicine--Practice--History.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Practice.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers examines the discourse of seventeenth-century English physicians to demonstrate that physicians utilized cultural attitudes and beliefs to create medical theory. They meshed moralism with medicine to self-fashion an image of themselves as knowledgeable health experts whose education assured good judgment and sage advice, and whose interest in the health of their patients surpassed the peddling of a single nostrum to everyone.
- Contents:
- Part I. The doctors
- part II. The distempers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-307) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sumich, Christi Keating, author. Divine doctors and dreadful distempers
- ISBN:
- 9789401209472
- 9401209472
- 1306167450
- 9781306167451
- OCLC:
- 869378180
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