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The making of the Dentiste, c. 1650-1760 /

"The early decades of the eighteenth century saw the appearance of a completely new type of surgical practitioner in France: the dentiste. The use of this title was of the utmost significance, indicating not just the making of a new practitioner but of an entirely new practice - the dentiste wa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: King, Roger, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2017.
Colección:History of medicine in context.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter Introduction: 'Problematizing' the History of Dentistry
  • chapter 1 Pretending to Draw Teeth: The Mountebank Drug-seller of the Fairs and Markets
  • chapter 2 Drawing Teeth: Practitioners below the Ladder of 'Official' Surgery
  • chapter 3 Teeth as Surgical Practice in the Seventeenth Century
  • chapter 4 The Fall and Rise of Academic Surgery in the Ancien Régime, and the Appearance of a Surgical Science for the Teeth
  • chapter 5 The Making of the Dentiste Technically: Pierre Fauchard, and the Work of the Chirurgien Dentiste
  • chapter 6 The Making of the Dentiste Socially: Appearance, Ennoblement and the Court.