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Divine doctors and dreadful distempers : how practicing medicine became a respectable profession /

Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers examines the discourse of seventeenth-century English physicians to demonstrate that physicians utilized cultural attitudes and beliefs to create medical theory. They meshed moralism with medicine to self-fashion an image of themselves as knowledgeable health e...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sumich, Christi Keating (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2013.
Collection:Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 91.
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Résumé:Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers examines the discourse of seventeenth-century English physicians to demonstrate that physicians utilized cultural attitudes and beliefs to create medical theory. They meshed moralism with medicine to self-fashion an image of themselves as knowledgeable health experts whose education assured good judgment and sage advice, and whose interest in the health of their patients surpassed the peddling of a single nostrum to everyone. The combination of morality with medicine gave them the support of the influential godly in society because physicians' theories ab.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-307) and index.
ISBN:9789401209472
9401209472
1306167450
9781306167451