The Dying and the Doctors :The Medical Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England - Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

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The Dying and the Doctors

The Dying and the Doctors :The Medical Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England - Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

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A survey of the changes in medical care for those approaching death in the early modern period. From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general practitioner in the early eighteenth century. It is this profound revolution, in both medical and religious terms, as whole communities' hopes for physical survival shifted from God to the doctor, that this book charts. Drawing on more than eighteen thousand probate accounts, it identifies massive increases in the consumption of medicines and medical advice by all social groups and in almost all areas. Most importantly, it examines the role of the towns in providing medical services to rural areas and hinterlands [using the diocese of Canterbury as a particular focus], and demonstrates the extending ranges of physicians', surgeons' and apothecaries' businesses. It also identifies a comparable revolution in community nursing, from its unskilled status in 1600 to a more exclusive one by 1700. IAN MORTIMER holds PhD and DLitt degrees from the University of Exeter. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780861933266
ISBN10 0861933265
Number Of Pages 246
Item Weight 396 g
Publisher / Reseller Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format paperback
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An important book for the social history of medicine. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *
Mortimer's description and conclusions must inform our understanding of seventeenth-century medical practice. * JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY *
Contributes to our understanding of the mechanisms, inspirations, and effects of an important paradigmatic shift which continues to shape societies across the globe today. * JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND HISTORY *
Chart[s] a remarkable medical revolution taking place throughout seventeenth-century England. Historians of early modern medicine should thank him for that. * JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES *
The results of this meticulous and painstaking research are persuasive and have far-reaching implications for the social history of medical care of the dying. * SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE *
Mortimer's book is a feat of statistical organisation. He has deftly and meticulously analysed thousands of probate records, using complex and subtle quantities techniques. [...] It is a valuable contribution to the history of medicine, and succeeds in its aim to draw attention to the hitherto acknowledged rise in the employment of doctors at times of grave illness. * LOCAL POPULATION STUDIES *
A work of great clarity and elegance, and provides the bedrock on which social history must be based. * TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT *
A must for any studying the history of science or subjects related to the Renaissance and Industrial Revolutions. * MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW *

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