Knowledge and practice in early modern English medicine, 1550-1680 / Andrew Wear.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wear, A. (Andrew), 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--England--History--17th century.

Medicine.

Medicine--England--History--16th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 496 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Knowledge & Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Setting the scene; CHAPTER 2 Remedies; CHAPTER 3 Diseases; CHAPTER 4 Preventive medicine: healthy lifestyles and healthy environments; CHAPTER 5 Surgery: the hand work of medicine; CHAPTER 6 Plague and medical knowledge; CHAPTER 7 The prevention and cure of the plague; CHAPTER 8 Conflict and revolution in medicine - the Helmontians; CHAPTER 9 The failure of the Helmontian revolution in practical medicine; CHAPTER 10 Changes and continuities; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11279-6

1-280-15194-3

9786610151943

0-511-11629-2

0-511-15375-9

0-511-32805-2

0-511-61276-1

0-511-05326-6

OCLC:

475915980