Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

Mary E. Fissell

Cambridge University Press, 2002

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In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown out these voices. This book argues that changes in the relationship between rich and poor underlay this rise in medicine's authority.

ISBN-13
9780521526937
ISBN-10
0521526930
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
Publication date
2002-07-04
Pages
284
Dimensions
152x229x24
Weight
444