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Doctor of Society - Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England (Paperback)
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Doctor of Society - Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare
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First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our
present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical
profession. Roy Porter argues that the outlook of the age of
Enlightenment was crucially important in the creation of modern
thinking about disease, doctors and society. To illustrate this
viewpoint, he focuses on Thomas Beddoes, a prominent doctor of the
eighteenth century and examines his challenging, pugnacious,
radical and often amusing views on a wide range of issues
concerning the place of illness and medicine in society. Many
modern debates in medicine continue to echo the topics which
Beddoes himself discussed in his ever-trenchant and provocative
manner. This book will be of interest to those studying the history
of medicine, social history and the Enlightenment.
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