This book considers the underlying forces which helped to produce a
revolution in seventeenth-century medicine. It shows how in the
period between 1630 and 1730 medicine came to represent something
more than a marginal activity unrelated to social and intellectual
phenomena and also how it was influenced and formed by the same
developments in religion, politics, science and commerce which
shaped the general history of the seventeenth century. In an
attempt to divert the historiography of the subject away from
Newton, natural philosophy and the 'scientific revolution', the
essays in this volume not only place medicine into a 'context' of
political, religious and social change but also explore the
dynamics which fashioned the nature of medicine in the age of
revolution. Not surprisingly, religion emerges as perhaps the
greatest external force for change, colouring most aspects of
national and local life and interacting with the growth in the
extent of medical knowledge and practice.
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