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Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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An investigation of the role which the English book trade played in
an important transitional period in early modern medicine. This
book examines the effects of medical publishing on the momentous
theoretical and jurisdictional controversies in health care in
early modern England. The simultaneous collapse of medical
orthodoxy and the control of medicinein London by the Royal College
of Physicians occurred when reform-minded doctors who were trained
on the continent, in tandem with surgeons and apothecaries,
successfully challenged the professional monopoly held by
Oxbridge-educated elites. This work investigates the book trade,
the role it played in medicine, and the impact of the debate itself
on the public sphere. Chapters analyze the politics and religious
preferences of printers and sellers, gender as a factor in medical
publishing, and the location of London bookshops, for clues to the
business of well-being. Advertisements for remedies and therapeutic
skills, the subject of another essay, became commonplace in
17th-centuryEngland; moreover, publishers and bookshop owners
sometimes held the rights to proprietary medicines, undercutting
licensed doctors. The final chapter surveys a variety of medical
illustrations and their influence on the relationship between
patient and physician. An epilogue considers the English medical
scene and the world of print after the famous Rose decision of
1702, when the House of Lords gave apothecaries the legal right to
practice medicine, ratifying the reality of a changed marketplace.
Elizabeth Lane Furdell is Professor of History at the University of
North Florida, and author of The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714 .
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