The dying and the doctors : the medical revolution in seventeenth-century England /

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

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mortimer, Ian, 1967-
Corporate Author: Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press, 2009.
Series:Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series.
Subjects:
1600-1714
Physicians > England > History > 17th century.
Medicine > England > History > 17th century.
Médecins > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Médecine > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
MEDICAL > Allied Health Services > General.
HISTORY > Modern > General.
Intellectual life
Medicine
Physicians
Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714.
England > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1603-1714 (Stuarts)
Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siècle.
England
Great Britain
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The medicalisation of East Kent
  • The medicalisation of central southern England
  • The availability and nature of medical assistance
  • Medical practices
  • The nature and availability of nursing care
  • Plague and smallpox.

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