The Dying and the Doctors

The Medical Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-86193-326-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 69, 246 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

Reihe: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

A survey of the changes in medical care for those approaching death in the early modern period.

From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general practitioner in the early eighteenth century. It is this profound revolution, in both medical and religious terms, as whole communities' hopes for physical survival shifted from God to the doctor, that this book charts. Drawing on more than eighteen thousand probate accounts, it identifies massive increases in the consumption of medicines and medical advice by all social groups and in almost all areas. Most importantly, it examines the role of the towns in providing medical services to rural areas and hinterlands [using the diocese of Canterbury as a particular focus], and demonstrates the extending ranges of physicians', surgeons' and apothecaries' businesses. It also identifies a comparable revolution in community nursing, from its unskilled status in 1600 to a more exclusive one by 1700.

IAN MORTIMER holds PhD and DLitt degrees from the University of Exeter. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mortimer, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
The medicalisation of East Kent
The medicalisation of central southern England
The availability and nature of medical assistance
Medical practices
The nature and availability of nursing care
Plague and smallpox
Conclusion
Appendix: Medical indices for East Kent, West Sussex, Berkshire and Wiltshire
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

IAN MORTIMER is an independent historian and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.