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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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2013.
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| Series: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
91. |
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| Online Access: | Click for online access |
| Summary: | 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 experts whose education assured good judgment and sage advice, and whose interest in the health of their patients surpassed the peddling of a single nostrum to everyone. The combination of morality with medicine gave them the support of the influential godly in society because physicians' theories ab. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-307) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401209472 9401209472 1306167450 9781306167451 |