Devine doctors and dreadful distempers: how practicing medicine became a respectable profession

by Sumich, Christi Keating

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Title Statements

Full title :Devine doctors and dreadful distempers : how practicing medicine became a respectable profession / by Christi Sumich.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Editions Rodopi B.V
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:312 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789042036888, 9789401209472, 9042036885, 9401209472
oclc:ocn864276118

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 'Physick keeps her very bare': Why Would Anyone See a Doctor in the Seventeenth Century? -- Part I: The Doctors: 'God heals, and the Doctor takes the fee': Combatting the Negative Reputation. 'A Sacred Anatomy Both of Soul and Body': Godly Physicians in Sermon Literature. 'Medling Fops' with their 'Gaggling Goose-quils': The Competition. 'Every man his own doctor': Physicians and the Printing Boom -- Part II: The Distempers: 'A Christian?s Groans Under the Body of Sin': The Pox and the Pious Physician. 'The Baneful Source of all our Woe': Poxed Women and Public Health. 'A Broom in the Hand of the Almighty': The Plague and the Unruly Poor. Conclusion.

Subjects

England Ethics, Medical Éthique médicale Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice History History, 17th Century Médecine -- Aspect religieux Médecine -- Histoire -- 17e siècle Medicine Medicine -- History -- 17th century Medicine -- Religious aspects Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical Physicians -- history Religion and Medicine