The Dying and the Doctors: The Medical Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England Tapa blanda - 2015

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UK / New York: Royal Historical Society / Boydell Press, 2015. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x0x9. First printing. Wrappers lightly soiled. 2015 Trade Paperback. 232 pp. "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… Leer más

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

Royal Historical Society, 2015. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 232 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

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