Title Patient's progress : doctors and doctoring in eighteenth-century England / Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter

Published Oxford : Polity in association with Basil Blackwell, 1989

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Description viii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents pt. 1. Context -- 2. Facing sickness -- 2. Healing in society -- pt. 2. Patients -- 3. Self-medication -- 4. Attitudes towards doctors -- 5. Consultations -- 6. Irregulars -- pt. 3. Doctors -- 7. The economy of medicine -- 8 . The doctor's point of view -- 9. Therapies -- 10. Doctors and women -- pt. 4. Medicine, ideology and society -- 11. Medical knowledge -- 12. Survey and conclusion Summary Examines what people did when they fell sick in England between 1650 and 1850 Analysis England Medicine 1650-1850 Social aspects England Medicine, 1650-1850. Social aspects Notes England. Medicine,. 1650-1850. Social aspects (BNB/PRECIS) Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 250-283 Subject Medicine -- England -- History -- 18th century. Physician and patient -- England -- History -- 18th century. Physicians -- England -- History -- 18th century. Social medicine -- England -- History -- 18th century. Social medicine -- England -- History. History of Medicine. History of Medicine, 18th century History of medicine, 18th century History, 18th Century. Physician-Patient Relations. SUBJECT United Kingdom. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 Richmond (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80100556 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 England. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739 England. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739 Author Porter, Roy, 1946-2002. LC no. 56000251 ISBN 0745602517

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