Divine doctors and dreadful distempers : how practicing medicine became a respectable profession /
Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers examines the discourse of seventeenth-century English physicians to demonstrate that physicians utilized cultural attitudes and beliefs to create medical theory. They meshed moralism with medicine to self-fashion an image of themselves as knowledgeable health e...
| Основен автор: | Sumich, Christi Keating, (Author) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2013.
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| Серия: |
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
91. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=659161 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Divine doctors and dreadful distempers |
| Резюме: |
Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers examines the discourse of seventeenth-century English physicians to demonstrate that physicians utilized cultural attitudes and beliefs to create medical theory. They meshed moralism with medicine to self-fashion an image of themselves as knowledgeable health experts whose education assured good judgment and sage advice, and whose interest in the health of their patients surpassed the peddling of a single nostrum to everyone. The combination of morality with medicine gave them the support of the influential godly in society because physicians' theories ab. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-307) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789401209472 9401209472 1306167450 9781306167451 |