Eighteenth Century Medics
Author | : Peter John Wallis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter John Wallis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sophie Vasset |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Communication in medicine |
ISBN | : 9780729410656 |
This title provides an analysis of how literary fiction borrowed narratorial devices from medical texts and vice-versa.
Author | : Andrew Cunningham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1990-07-19 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521382359 |
A series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and the increased use of reason.
Author | : Karol Kimberlee Weaver |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Black people |
ISBN | : 0252073215 |
'Medical Revolutionaries' highlights how slave healers inspired the Haitian Revolution, toppled the slave system, and led to the loss of France's most productive New World economy.
Author | : William F. Bynum |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2002-06-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521525176 |
Essays on the career of William Hunter, physician, obstetrician, medical educator and man of culture.
Author | : Marie Mulvey Roberts |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2022-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000713199 |
First published in 1993, Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century analyses the close interplay of medicine and literature by paying special attention to questions of body language and the representation of inner life. Although today, medicine and literature are widely seen as falling on different sides of the ‘two cultures’ divide, this was not so in the eighteenth century when doctors, scientists, writers, and artists formed a well-integrated educated elite. Locke, Smollett and Goldsmith were doctors, and physicians such as Erasmus Darwin doubled as poets. Written by leading historians of medicine and eighteenth-century literary critics, this book uncovers the interconnections between medical and psychological theory and ideas of taste, beauty, and genius. Its contributors explore the rich cultural milieu of the period and investigate the ways in which medicine itself contributed to informing a gendered discourse of the world. This book will be of interest to historians, literary scholars and medical historians.
Author | : Zachary Dorner |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2020-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022670680X |
The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century—the so-called long eighteenth century of English history—was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long-distance trade, and human enslavement. It was also the moment when medicines, previously produced locally and in small batches, became global products. As greater numbers of British subjects struggled to survive overseas, more medicines than ever were manufactured and exported to help them. Most historical accounts, however, obscure the medicine trade’s dependence on slave labor, plantation agriculture, and colonial warfare. In Merchants of Medicines, Zachary Dorner follows the earliest industrial pharmaceuticals from their manufacture in the United Kingdom, across trade routes, and to the edges of empire, telling a story of what medicines were, what they did, and what they meant. He brings to life business, medical, and government records to evoke a vibrant early modern world of London laboratories, Caribbean estates, South Asian factories, New England timber camps, and ships at sea. In these settings, medicines were produced, distributed, and consumed in new ways to help confront challenges of distance, labor, and authority in colonial territories. Merchants of Medicines offers a new history of economic and medical development across early America, Britain, and South Asia, revealing the unsettlingly close ties among medicine, finance, warfare, and slavery that changed people’s expectations of their health and their bodies.
Author | : Peter John Wallis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Physicians |
ISBN | : 9780851155180 |
Author | : Wyndham Bolling Blanton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Enlightenment |
ISBN | : 9789051835625 |
The interpretation of eighteenth-century medicine has been much contested. Some have view it as a wilderness of rationalism and arid theories between the Scientific Revolution and the astonishing changes of the nineteenth-century. Other scholars have emphasized the close and fruitful links between medicine and the Enlightenment, suggesting that medical advance was the very embodiment of the philosphes ' ideal of a practical science that would improve mankind's lot and foster human happiness. In a series of essays covering Great Britain, France, Germany and other parts of Europe, noted historians debate these issues through detailed examinations of major aspects of eighteenth-century medicine and medical controversy, including such topics as the introduction of smallpox inoculation, the transformation of medical education, and the treatment of the insane. The essays as a whole suggest a positive reading of the transformations in eighteenth-century medicine, while stressing local diversity and uneven development.