Book ID: CBB000059374

The medical enlightenment of the 18th century (1990)

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Cunningham, Andrew (Editor)
French, Roger K. (Editor)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1990
Physical Details: xi + 330 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Wilson, Adrian: The politics of medical improvement in early Hanoverian London. Cunningham, Andrew: Medicine to calm the mind: Boerhaave's medical system, and why it was adopted in Edinburgh. Geyer-Kordesch, Johanna: Georg Ernst Stahl's radical Pietist medicine and its influence on the German Enlightenment. French, Roger: Sickness and the soul: Stahl, Hoffman and Sauvages on pathology. Martin, Julian: Sauvages's nosology: Medical enlightenment in Montpellier. Harley, David: Honour and property: The structure of professional disputes in 18th-century English medicine. Benjamin, Marina: Medicine, morality and the politics of Berkeley's tar-water. Brock, Helen: North America, a western outpost of European medicine. Lobo, Francis M.: John Haygarth, smallpox and religous dissent in 18th-century England. Kilpatrick, Robert: “Living in the light”: Dispensaries, philanthropy and medical reform in late-18th-century London. Schaffer, Simon: Measuring virtue: Eudiometry, enlightenment and pneumatic medicine.


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Authors & Contributors
De Ceglia, Francesco Paolo
Carvallo, Sarah
Alfonso-Goldfarb, Ana Maria
Bucher, Urban Gottfried
Ferraz, Marcia H. M.
Waisse, Silvia
Journals
Vesalius
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Revue de Synthèse
Pharmacy in History
Janus: revue internationale de l'histoire des sciences, de la medecine, de la pharmacie et de la technique
HOPOS
Publishers
University of California, Los Angeles
Springer
Science History
Plus, Pisa University Press
Il Mulino
Frommann-Holzboog
Concepts
Medicine
Chemistry
Biographies
Physiology
Animism
Iatrophysical school
People
Stahl, Georg Ernst
Hoffmann, Friedrich
Boerhaave, Herman
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Bucher, Urban Gottfried
Sherrington, Charles Scott
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
20th century
Places
Germany
New Hampshire (U.S.)
Leiden (Netherlands)
England
Edinburgh
Netherlands
Institutions
Halle-Wittenberg. Universität
Universiteit Leiden
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