1st Edition
Doctor of Society Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England
By Roy Porter
Copyright 1992
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Roy Porter
