Papers from a conference held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London in Jan. 1991. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The popularization of medicine in early modern England / Andrew Wear -- Acquiring surgical know-how : occupational and lay instruction in early eighteenth-century London / Philip K. Wilson -- Readers, texts, and contexts : vernacular medical works in early modern England / Mary E. Fissell -- The popularization of medicine in France, 1650-1900 / Matthew Ramsey -- The non-naturals made easy / Antoinette Emch-DeĢriaz -- The popularization of medicine during the Spanish Enlightenment / Enrique Perdiguero -- Tissot as part of the medical Enlightenment in Hungary / Maria Szlatky -- Spreading medical Enlightenment : the popularization of medicine in Georgian England, and its paradoxes / Roy Porter -- ''But all those authors are foreigners' : American literary nationalism and domestic medical guides / Norman Gevitz. 'Mr Scott's case' : a view of London medicine in 1825 / Stephen Jacyna.
Series:
The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
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