Divine doctors and dreadful distempers : how practicing medicine became a respectable profession / Christi Sumich

Preliminary material /Editors Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers -- Introduction: ‘Physick keeps her very bare’: Why Would Anyone See a Doctor in the Seventeenth Century? /Editors Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers -- ‘God heals, and the Doctor takes the fee’: Combatting the Negative Reputation /Editors Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers -- ‘A Sacred Anatomy Both of Soul and Body’: Godly Physicians in Sermon Literature /Editors Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers -- ‘Medling Fops’ with their ‘Gaggling Goose-quils’: The Competition /Editors Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers -- ‘Every man his own doctor’: Physicians and the Printing Boom /Editors Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers -- ‘A Christian’s Groans Under the Body of Sin’: The Pox and the Pious Physician /Editors Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers -- ‘The Baneful Source of all our Woe’: Women and the Pox /Editors Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers -- ‘A Broom in the Hand of the Almighty’: The Plague and the Unruly Poor /Editors Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers -- Conclusion /Editors Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers -- Bibliography /Editors Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers -- Index /Editors Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers..

Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers examines the discourse of seventeenth-century English physicians to demonstrate that physicians utilized cultural attitudes and beliefs to create medical theory. They meshed moralism with medicine to self-fashion an image of themselves as knowledgeable health experts whose education assured good judgment and sage advice, and whose interest in the health of their patients surpassed the peddling of a single nostrum to everyone. The combination of morality with medicine gave them the support of the influential godly in society because physicians’ theories about disease and its prevention supported contemporary concerns that sinfulness was rampant. Particularly disturbing to the godly were sins deemed most threatening to the social order: lasciviousness, ungodliness, and unruliness, all of which were most clearly and threateningly manifested in the urban poor. Physicians’ medical theories and suggestions for curbing some of the most feared and destructive diseases in the seventeenth century, most notably plague and syphilis, focused on reforming or incarcerating the sick and sinful poor. Doing so helped propel physicians to an elevated position in the hierarchy of healers competing for patients in seventeenth-century England.

Medienart:	E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Erschienen:	Amsterdam New York: Rodopi ; 2013

Weitere Ausgaben:	Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe: Divine doctors and dreadful distempers

Reihe:	Clio medica - 91

Sprache:	Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:	Sumich, Christi [VerfasserIn]

Links:	Volltext Volltext dx.doi.org [DOI]

ISBN:	978-94-012-0947-2

Nlm:	W1 WZ 70 FE5
BKL:	44.01 / Geschichte der Medizin 44.04 / Ausbildung / Beruf / Organisationen
Themen:	Arzt Beruf England Geschichte 1600-1700 History History, 17th Century Image Medicine Medicine ; Practice Physicians Professional Role Professional role Religion and Medicine Religion and medicine

Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (312 Seiten)

doi:	10.1163/9789401209472

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PPN (Katalog-ID):	1727530780