Divine doctors and dreadful distempers : how practicing medicine became a respectable profession / Christi Sumich.

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...

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Main Author: Sumich, Christi Keating (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2013.
Series:Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 91.
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