Robert Weston

Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 1665-1789 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical advice. This study, the first full-length examination of the practice of consulting by letter, provides a cohesive portrayal of some of the widespread ailments of French society in the latter part of the early modern period. It explores how and why changes occurred in the relationships between those who sought and those who provided medical advice. Previous studies of epistolary medical consulting have limited attention to the output of one or two practitioners, but this study uses the consultations of around 100 individual practitioners from the mid-seventeenth century to the time of the Revolution to give a broad picture of patients and physicians perceptions of illnesses and how they should be treated on a day-to-day basis. It makes a unique contribution to the history of medicine, as no other study has been undertaken in the consulting by letter of surgeons, as opposed to physicians. It is shown that the well-known disputation between physicians and surgeons tells only a part of the history; whereas in fact, necessity required that these two 'professions' had to work together for the patients' good.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317098416
• Artikelnr.: 44991743

Autorenporträt

Robert Weston is Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Part I Contexts: Textual, Professional and Social: Correspondence: practices and context
The dynamic medical marketplace
Relationships between medical correspondents
Knowledge, status and power: negotiating authority. Part II Body, Health and Illness: University medical knowledge in epistolary practice
Patients' perceptions of the body, health and illness
The deployment of therapies
From complaint to cure
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.