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Author : Elizabeth Lane Furdell
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580461191
An investigation of the role which the English book trade played in an important transitional period in early modern medicine.
Author : Elaine Leong
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 022658366X
Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by teams of householders, including masters and servants, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons. This much-sought know-how was written into notebooks of various shapes and sizes forming “treasuries for health,” each personalized to suit the whims and needs of individual communities. In Recipes and Everyday Knowledge, Elaine Leong situates recipe knowledge and practices among larger questions of gender and cultural history, the history of the printed word, and the history of science, medicine, and technology. The production of recipes and recipe books, she argues, were at the heart of quotidian investigations of the natural world or “household science”. She shows how English homes acted as vibrant spaces for knowledge making and transmission, and explores how recipe trials allowed householders to gain deeper understandings of sickness and health, of the human body, and of natural and human-built processes. By recovering this story, Leong extends the parameters of natural inquiry and productively widens the cast of historical characters participating in and contributing to early modern science.
Author : Margaret Pelling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 2006-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0192575503
Physicians have had a major role in framing the middle-class values of modern western society, especially those relating to the professions. This book questions the bases of this hegemony, by looking first at the early modern physician's insecurities in terms of status and gender, and then at the wider world of medicine in London which the College of Physicians sought to suppress. The College's proceedings against irregular practitioners constitute a case-study in the regulation of an occupation critical for the well-being of contemporary Londoners. However, the College was, it is argued, an anomalous body, detached from most other forms of male authority in the urban context, and its claims lacked social recognition. It used stereotyping to construct an account designed for higher authority, but at the same time, its regulatory efforts were constantly undermined by the effects of patronage. The so-called irregular practitioners emerge as extremely diverse in country of origin, religious belief, and levels of formal education, yet the full analysis provided here also shows that most were literate, and that a significant number later became members of the College. Many were London artisans, barber-surgeons and apothecaries who can be seen as the 'excluded middle' between the two better-known extremes of the physician and the quack. In suppressing artisan practitioners, the College was also seeking to suppress contractual or 'citizen' medicine, an alternative system of structuring relations between the active patient and the practitioner which was fully integrated in contemporary urban custom and practice, but which has since disappeared. The College's selective account also inadvertently reveals the existence of female artisans who practised medicine outside the household routinely and for payment. Although distorted by the College's proximity to the Crown and to élite patrons, the Annals of the College give access to the rich variety of medical practice in early modern London and to the forms of resistance and self-presentation with which those outside the College justified, or denied, their identity as practitioners.
Author : Alanna Skuse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137487534
This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern England. Looking to drama, poetry and polemic as well as medical texts and personal accounts, it contends that early modern people possessed an understanding of cancer which remains recognizable to us today. Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer – as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast' inside the body – remain strikingly familiar, and they helped to make this disease a byword for treachery and cruelty in discussions of religion, culture and politics. Equally, cancer treatments were among the era's most radical medical and surgical procedures. From buttered frog ointments to agonizing and dangerous surgeries, they raised abiding questions about the nature of disease and the proper role of the medical practitioner.
Author : Sarah Neville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1316515990
In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.
Author : Andrew Wear
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
A collection of 11 essays published between 1981 and 1996 reflecting the shift of emphasis by historians of medicine from the triumph of the existing medical industry to the place of health in society as a whole and in various subpopulations. Among the topics are Galen in the Renaissance, William Harvey and the Way of the Anatomists, Religious beliefs and medicine in early modern England, puritan perceptions of illness in 17th-century England, medical ethics during the period, caring for the sick poor in St. Bartholomew Exchange 1580-1676, the popularization of medicine, and epistemology and learned medicine. The essays are reproduced from their original publication in a variety of type styles. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : M. Jenner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0230591469
What was the medical marketplace? This book provides the first critical examination of medicine and the market in pre-modern England, colonial North America and British India. Chapters explore the most important themes in the social history of medicine and offer a fresh understanding of healthcare in this time of social and economic transformation.
Author : Elizabeth Lane Furdell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9004146636
This collection of twelve essays explores various aspects in the development of medicine from the Middle Ages to 1700 with a particular emphasis on revisiting original texts for new insights in the culture of healing.
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521557917
In his short but authoritative study, Roy Porter examines the impact of disease upon the English and their responses to it before the widespread availability and public provision of medical care. Professor Porter incorporates into the revised second edition new perspectives offered by recent research into provincial medical history, the history of childbirth, and women's studies in the social history of medicine. He begins by sketching a picture of the threats posed by disease to population levels and social continuity from Tudor times to the Industrial Revolution, going on to consider the nature and development of the medical profession, attitudes to doctors and disease, and the growing commitment of the state to public health. Drawing together a wide range of often fragmentary material, and providing a detailed annotated bibliography, this book is an important guide to the history of medicine and to English social history.
Author : Jennifer Evans
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0861933249
An investigation into aphrodisiacs challenges pre-conceived ideas about sexuality during this period.