The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2008
First published:	November 2008
Editors:	Roger French • Andrew Wear
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	340
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-08992-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	0-521-08992-1
Barcode:	9780521089920

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