The royal doctors, 1485-1714 : medical personnel at the Tudor and Stuart courts / Elizabeth Lane Furdell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Furdell, Elizabeth Lane, author.

Series:

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 ; v. 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians--England--History--16th century.

Physicians.

Physicians--England--History--17th century.

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

Medicine.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Rochester, N.Y., USA : University of Rochester Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing upon a myriad of primary and secondary historical sources, The Royal Doctors: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patientsduring a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession. Over three hundred men [and a handful of women], heretofore unexamined as a group, made up the medical staff of the Tudor and Stuart kings and queensof England [as well as the Lord Protectorships of Oliver and Richard Cromwell]. The royal doctors faced enormous challenges in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from diseases that respected no rank and threatened the very security of the realm. Moreover, they had to weather political and religious upheavals that led to regicide and revolution, as well as cope with sharp theoretical and jurisdictional divisions within English medicine. The rulers often interceded in medical controversies at the behest of their royal doctors, bringing sovereign authority to bear on the condition of medicine. Elizabeth Lane Furdell is Professor of History at the University of NorthFlorida.

Contents:

The patriarchal myth: deconstruction and reconstruction

Correlating linguistics and archaeology in East-Central African history

The early social history of East-Central Africa

Women's authority: female coalitions, politics, and religion

Women's authority and female initiation in East-Central African history

Pots, hoes, and food: women in technology and production

Sacred, but never profane: sex and sexuality in East-Central African history

Kucilinga na lesa kupanshanya mayo.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Mar 2023).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-292) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-38283-3

9786611382834

1-58046-600-1

OCLC:

223441415