Article ID: CBB001023375

Physicians and the Reform of Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (2009)

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The ancient rivalry between the learned physician and the unofficial, popular healer seems to have broken out with particular vindictiveness during the early modern period. Emboldened by a rapidly changing and increasingly competitive medical marketplace, charlatans and popular healers challenged traditional medicine in printed tracts and in public performances in the piazzas and marketplaces. The university-trained physicians responded to the challenge with a barrage of attacks on popular errors. The errors of the people in medicine became emblematic of the credulity and backwardness of popular culture in general. This paper, originally presented at a conference in Koper, Slovenia, focuses upon physicians' writings on popular errors written between the mid-16th century and the early 18th century and analyzes the cultural codes and stereotypes about popular culture that emerged from these writings.

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Authors & Contributors
Roberta Mullini
Giuseppe Papagno
Trambaiolo, Daniel
Withey, Alun
Weston, Robert
Weisser, Olivia
Concepts
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Authority of medicine
Medicine and culture
Medicine, popular
Medicine and politics
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
19th century
Renaissance
Early modern
Places
England
United States
South Carolina (U.S.)
Wales
Portugal
Japan
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