Book ID: CBB000070174

Medicine in the Enlightenment (1995)

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Porter, Roy S. (Editor)


Rodopi


Publication Date: 1995
Physical Details: x + 399 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Andrews, Jonathan: The politics of committal to early modern Bethlem. Brockliss, L.W.B.: Medical reform, the Enlightenment and physician-power in late 18th-century France. Geyer-Kordesch, Johanna: Whose Enlightenment? Medicine, witchcraft, melancholia and pathology. Grundy, Isobel: Sarah Stone: Enlightenment midwife. Jackson, Mark: Developing medical expertise: Medical practitioners and the suspected murders of new-born children. Jordanova, Ludmilla J.: Reflections on medical reform: Cabanis' Coup d'oeuil. Lindemann, Mary: The Enlightenment encountered: The German physicus and his world, 1750-1820. Maehle, Andreas-Holger: Conflicting attitudes towards inoculation in Enlightenment Germany. McKee, Francis: Honeyed words: Bernard Mandeville and medical discourse. Porter, Roy: Shaping psychiatric knowledge: The role of the asylum. Rey, Roselyne: Vitalism, disease and society. Rusnock, Andrea A.: The weight of evidence and the burden of authority: Case histories, medical statistics and smallpox inoculation. Shuttleton, David E.: Methodism and Dr George Cheyne's “more enlightening principles”. Suzuki, Akihito: Anti-Lockean Enlightenment? Mind and body in early 18th-century English medicine. Wilson, Philip: An Enlightenment science? Surgery and the Royal Society.


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Authors & Contributors
Guerrini, Anita
Wild, Wayne
Molina-Betancur, Sebastián
Daniel Luban
Hilton, Phillip
Vickers, Neil
Journals
Gesnerus
Studi Settecenteschi
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
History of Science
Publishers
University of Oklahoma Press
Rodopi
Peter Lang
Johns Hopkins University Press
Brandeis University
Concepts
Medicine
Mental disorders and diseases
Depression
Mind and body
Physicians; doctors
Correspondence and corresponding
People
Cheyne, George
Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges
Cullen, William
Mandeville, Bernard de
Jurin, James
Sömmerring, Samuel Thomas von
Time Periods
18th century
Enlightenment
19th century
17th century
Places
British Isles
Scotland
France
Great Britain
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