Porter Doctor of Society

Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-315-51808-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare

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 century and examines his challenging, pugnacious, radical and often amusing views on a wide range of issues concerning the place of illness and medicine in society. Many modern debates in medicine continue to echo the topics which Beddoes himself discussed in his ever-trenchant and provocative manner.

This book will be of interest to those studying the history of medicine, social history and the Enlightenment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Porter, Roy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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