Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Murders and miracles: Lay attitudes towards medicine in classical antiquity
- 3 Puritan perceptions of illness in seventeenth century England
- 4 In sickness and in health: A seventeenth century family's experience
- 5 Participant or patient? Seventeenth century childbirth from the mother's point of view
- 6 Piety and the patient: Medicine and religion in eighteenth century Bristol
- 7 Cultural habits of illness: The Enlightened and the Pious in eighteenth century Germany
- 8 ‘The doctor scolds me’: The diaries and correspondence of patients in eighteenth century England
- 9 Prescribing the rules of health: Self-help and advice in the late eighteenth century
- 10 Laymen, doctors and medical knowledge in the eighteenth century: The evidence of the Gentleman's Magazine
- 11 The colonisation of traditional Arabic medicine
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Murders and miracles: Lay attitudes towards medicine in classical antiquity
- 3 Puritan perceptions of illness in seventeenth century England
- 4 In sickness and in health: A seventeenth century family's experience
- 5 Participant or patient? Seventeenth century childbirth from the mother's point of view
- 6 Piety and the patient: Medicine and religion in eighteenth century Bristol
- 7 Cultural habits of illness: The Enlightened and the Pious in eighteenth century Germany
- 8 ‘The doctor scolds me’: The diaries and correspondence of patients in eighteenth century England
- 9 Prescribing the rules of health: Self-help and advice in the late eighteenth century
- 10 Laymen, doctors and medical knowledge in the eighteenth century: The evidence of the Gentleman's Magazine
- 11 The colonisation of traditional Arabic medicine
- Index
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- Patients and PractitionersLay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial Society, pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986