عنوان

The Medical revolution of the seventeenth century /

(Number (ISBN

9780511897078 (ebook)

Erroneous ISBN

9780521089920 (paperback)

Erroneous ISBN

9780521355100 (hardback)

Number

b504550

Title Proper

The Medical revolution of the seventeenth century /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Roger French and Andrew Wear.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1989.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (viii, 328 pages) :

Other Physical Details

digital, PDF file(s)

Text of Note

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

Text of Note

Medicine, religion and the puritan revolution / Peter Elmer -- Harvey in Holland : circulation and the Calvinists / Roger French -- The matters of souls : medical theory and theology in seventeenth-century England / John Henry -- Mental illness, magical medicine and the devil in northern England, 1650-1700 / David Harley -- Passions and the ghost in the machine : or what not to ask about science in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany / Johanna Geyer-Kordesch -- Thomas Sydenham : epidemics, experiment and the "good old cause" / Andrew Cunningham -- The medico-religious universe of an early eighteenth-century Parisian doctor : the case of Philippe Hecquet / L.W.B. Brockliss -- Isaac Newton, George Cheyne and the Principia medicinae / Anita Guerrini -- Physicians and the new philosophy : Henry Stubbe and the virtuosi-physicians / Harold J. Cook -- The early Royal Society and the spread of medical knowledge / Roy Porter -- Medical practice in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England : continuity and union / Andrew Wear.

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This book considers the underlying forces which helped to produce a revolution in seventeenth-century medicine. It shows how in the period between 1630 and 1730 medicine came to represent something more than a marginal activity unrelated to social and intellectual phenomena and also how it was influenced and formed by the same developments in religion, politics, science and commerce which shaped the general history of the seventeenth century. In an attempt to divert the historiography of the subject away from Newton, natural philosophy and the 'scientific revolution', the essays in this volume not only place medicine into a 'context' of political, religious and social change but also explore the dynamics which fashioned the nature of medicine in the age of revolution. Not surprisingly, religion emerges as perhaps the greatest external force for change, colouring most aspects of national and local life and interacting with the growth in the extent of medical knowledge and practice.

Medicine-- Europe-- History-- 17th century.

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Book number

French, R. K., (Roger Kenneth)

Wear, A., (Andrew),1946-

Date of Transaction

20151005020622.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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