Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-521-55226-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 876 g

This is a major synthesis of the knowledge and practice of early modern English medicine in its social and cultural contexts. The book vividly maps out some central areas: remedies (and how they were made credible), notions of disease, advice on preventive medicine and on healthy living, and how surgeons worked upon the body and their understanding of what they were doing. The structures of practice and knowledge examined in the first part of the book came to be challenged in the later seventeenth century, when the 'new science' began to overturn the foundation of established knowledge. However, as the second part of the book shows, traditional medical practice was so well entrenched in English culture that much of it continued into the eighteenth century. Various changes did however occur, which set the agenda for later medical treatment and which are discussed in the final chapter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wear, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Setting the scene; 2. Remedies; 3. Diseases; 4. Preventive medicine: healthy lifestyles and healthy environments; 5. Surgery: the handwork of medicine; 6. Plague and medical knowledge; 7. The prevention and cure of plague; 8. Conflict and revolution in medicine; 9. The failure of the Helmontian revolution in the practice of medicine; 10. Changes and continuities.