Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Mary E. Fissell

页数:284

出版时间:2002-7-8

价格:USD 67.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780521526937

图书标签:性别.身体历史医疗史医学社会史

In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown out these voices. This book uses patients' perspectives to argue that changes in the relationship between rich and poor underlay this rise in medicine's authority. In a detailed examination of health, healing, and poor relief in eighteenth-century Bristol, the author shows how the experiences of the hospitalized urban poor laid the foundations for modern doctor-patient encounters. Within the hospital, charity patients were denied the power to interpret their own illnesses, as control of the institution shifted from lay patrons to surgeons. Outside the hospital, reforms of popular culture stigmatized ordinary people's ideas about their own bodies. Popular medicine became working-class medicine, associated with superstition and political unrest.

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bold, blunt but meticulously researched. The religious/political root of the fragmentation of vernacular medicine in late 18th-cen England.

bold, blunt but meticulously researched. The religious/political root of the fragmentation of vernacular medicine in late 18th-cen England.

bold, blunt but meticulously researched. The religious/political root of the fragmentation of vernacular medicine in late 18th-cen England.

bold, blunt but meticulously researched. The religious/political root of the fragmentation of vernacular medicine in late 18th-cen England.

bold, blunt but meticulously researched. The religious/political root of the fragmentation of vernacular medicine in late 18th-cen England.