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Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680 (Hardcover)
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Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680 (Hardcover)
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This is a major synthesis of the knowledge and practice of early
modern English medicine in its social and cultural contexts. The
book vividly maps out some central areas: remedies (and how they
were made credible), notions of disease, advice on preventive
medicine and on healthy living, and how surgeons worked upon the
body and their understanding of what they were doing. The
structures of practice and knowledge examined in the first part of
the book came to be challenged in the later seventeenth century,
when the 'new science' began to overturn the foundation of
established knowledge. However, as the second part of the book
shows, traditional medical practice was so well entrenched in
English culture that much of it continued into the eighteenth
century. Various changes did however occur, which set the agenda
for later medical treatment and which are discussed in the final
chapter.
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