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Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550–1860

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  • © 1993
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Authors:
  1. Roy Porter

    1. Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Economic and Social History (SESH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-7
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  2. Introduction

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 9-12

  3. Disease, Death and Doctors in Tudor and Stuart England

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 13-17

  4. The Practice of Medicine in Early Modern England

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 18-22

  5. Experiences and Actions: Countering Illness in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 23-31

  6. Medicine in the Market Economy of the Georgian Age

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 32-47

  7. The Medical Profession and the State in the Nineteenth Century

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 48-60

  8. The Role of Medicine: What Did it Achieve?

    • Roy Porter
    Pages 61-65

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 66-82
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Incorporates the findings of recent researches into hospital history, provincial medical history and the history of childbirth, and draws upon new perspectives offered by women's studies in the social history of medicine. It also examines the impact of disease upon English people.

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  • Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK

    Roy Porter

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