Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century

Name: Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century
Price: 33.0 USD
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ISBN: 9780521382359

ISBN-10: 0521382351

ISBN-13: 9780521382359

Edition: 1990

Authors: Andrew Cunningham, Roger French

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Book details

List price: $103.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/19/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of tables


Preface


Introduction



The politics of medical improvement in early Hanoverian London




Medicine to calm the mind: Boerhaave's medical system, and why it was adopted in Edinburgh




Georg Ernst Stahl's radical Pietist medicine and its influence on the German Enlightenment




Sickness and the soul: Stahl, Hoffman and Sauvages on pathology




Sauvages's nosology: medical enlightenment in Montpellier




Honour and property: the structure of professional disputes in eighteenth-century English medicine




Medicine, morality and the politics of Berkeley's tar-water




North America, a western outpost of European medicine




John Haygarth, smallpox and religious Dissent in eighteenth-century England




'Living in the light': dispensaries, philanthropy and medical reform in late-eighteenth-century London




Measuring virtue: eudiometry, enlightenment and pneumatic medicine



Index