Medicine in an age of revolution

Medicine in an age of revolution / Peter Elmer.

'Medicine in an Age of Revolution' is concerned with the interaction between religion, politics, and medicine in an age of revolutionary upheaval associated with the civil wars in Britain in the mid-seventeenth century. As medical and scientific thinking underwent radical revision, its imp...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elmer, Peter (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
1600-1699
Medicine > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Medicine > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Medicine > Great Britain > Religious aspects > History > 17th century.
Medicine
Medicine > Political aspects
Medicine > Religious aspects
Medicine: general issues.
Health and Wellbeing.
Great Britain
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Halftitle page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Premature Death of a Renaissance Commonplace: The Body Politic in Puritan England, 1640-1660
  • Introduction
  • Puritan Conceptions of the Body Politic, 1640-1660
  • Sin, Sickness and the Body Politic In Puritan England
  • 3. Providing 'Physick for the Body Politick': The Politicization of Healers and Healing in England, 1640-1660
  • Introduction
  • Office-Holding, Puritanism and Medical Practice in Civil War England
  • The Benefits of Office-Holding
  • The Fate of the Loyal: Medical Practitioners and the Defence of Crown And Church
  • The Puritanism-Science Debate Revisited: The Case of Medicine
  • Iatrochemistry and the English Revolution
  • 4. 'By Virtue of our Hermetick Physick, the Head, Heart, and Hands of Hierophants might be Purified': The Society of Chymical Physicians and Medical Reform in Restoration England
  • Introduction
  • The Society of Chymical Physicians: Politics, Religion and the Struggle for Medical Change in Restoration London
  • Accounting for Failure: Religious Radicalism and Medical Reform in Restoration England
  • The Fate of Helmontianism in Later Stuart England
  • 5. Healers and Healing in the First Age of Party: Medicine, Politics and Dissent
  • Introduction
  • Medical Practitioners on the Margins: Catholics, Baptists and Quakers
  • The Emergence of a Dissenting Medical Tradition in Restoration England
  • Medicine as a Refuge for Plotting and Subversion
  • 'A Fruitful Mother of Such English Brats': Holland, the Dutch Medical Schools and Political Opposition to the Stuarts
  • Medicinal Networks, Plots and the Whig Cause
  • A Dissenting Medical Tradition?
  • 6. 'Every Corporation a Politick Pest-House': Medicine, Anglicanism and the Tory Reaction, 1660-1688
  • Introduction
  • Administering Physic to the Body Politic: Medical Mayors in Restoration England
  • Corporate Governance and Medical Men: The Case of Restoration Gloucester
  • Medical Men, Civic Governance and Political 'Crisis'
  • Doctors and the Dispensation of Justice in Restoration England
  • Anatomizing the Body Politic: Medical Men, Pamphleteering and Loyal Propaganda
  • Anglicans, Tories and Medical Innovation
  • 7. Conclusions: Medicine in an Age of Revolution
  • Appendix 1 (a). Biographical index of medical signatories in favour of the creation of a Society of Chymical Physicians (1665)
  • Jeremiah ASTEL (d.1675)
  • (Sir) Richard BARKER (c.1622-1686)
  • Thomas BARKER
  • William BARKLEY or BERKELEY
  • Robert BATHURST
  • Edward BOLNEST (1627-1703)
  • William BOREMAN or BURMAN (d.1707)
  • Edward COKE or COOKE
  • William CURRER (1617-1668)
  • Joseph DEY (1615-1665)
  • Sir Kenelm DIGBY (1603-1665)
  • John FLOYD
  • John FRYER (d.1672)
  • William GODDARD (d.1670)
  • Thomas HORSINGTON (1619-1666)
  • Mr HORSNEL
  • James JOLLY (b.1627)

Similar Items