Sickness, Health and Medical Care, 1650-1850
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Köp båda 2 för 1158 kr'The Porters have written a very important work that helps balance the conventional physician-driven accounts of eighteenth-century medicine with a richly documented examination of the sick person's ideas about health ... Henceforth, no one writing on this subject will be able to ignore this key contribution.' Journal of Social History
Roy Porter is Professor of the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute. Both he and Dorothey Porter are currently working on a history of public health and a history of ideas of health and disease.
Preface. Part I: Context. 1. Facing Sickness. 2. Healing in Society. Part II: Patients. . 3. Self-medication. 4. Attitudes Towards Doctors. 5. Consultations. 6. Irregulars. Part III: Doctors. 7. The Economy of Medicine. 8. The Doctors' Point of View. 9. Therapies. 10. Doctors and Women. Part IV: Medicine, Ideology and Society. . 11. Medical Knowledge. 12. Survey and Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index.