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

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 ab.

Medienart:

E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

2013

Erschienen:

Amsterdam New York, NY: Rodopi ; 2013

Reihe:

Clio medica - 91

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sumich, Christi Keating [Sonstige Person]

Links:

search.ebscohost.com [lizenzpflichtig]

ISBN:

1-306-16745-0

978-1-306-16745-1

978-94-012-0947-2

94-012-0947-2

Nlm:

WZ 70 FE5

W1

Themen:

Arzt
Electronic books
England
HEALTH & FITNESS ; Holism
HEALTH & FITNESS ; Reference
History
History, 17th Century
MEDICAL ; Alternative Medicine
MEDICAL ; Atlases
MEDICAL ; Essays
MEDICAL ; Family & General Practice
MEDICAL ; Holistic Medicine
MEDICAL ; Osteopathy
Medicine
Medicine ; Practice
Medizin
Moralismus
Patient
Physicians
Professional Role
Religion and Medicine
Religiosität

Anmerkungen:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-307) and index. - Print version record

Umfang:

Online Ressource (312 pages) ; illustrations.

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

81323963X