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Professional and Popular Medicine in France 1770-1830: The Social World of Medical Practice

Professional and Popular Medicine in France 1770-1830: The Social World of Medical Practice

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This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners who flourished in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it provides a richly detailed examination of medical practice as it existed in France during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Professor Ramsey argues that to penetrate this world, in many ways strangely different from our own, we must join two lines of inquiry:: the history of the professions and the history of popular culture. The book considers not only the immediate ancestors of the modern medical profession - university-trained physicians who followed a liberal calling and surgeons who practiced a manual craft - but also the highly diverse group of practitioners who worked without legal authorization:: traveling charlatans, local urine scanners, folk healers using herbs and charms, counterwitches, and a great many ordinary people in other trades.
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Publication date
2002
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
428
Dimensions (mm)
152.00 x 228.00
Weight (g)
683
  • List of tables, maps, and illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Professional Medicine:: 1. The regular medical network at the end of the Old Regime; 2. The medical profession in the early nineteenth century; Part II. Popular Medicine:: 3. Irregulars:: itinerants; 4. Irregulars:: sedentary empirics; 5. Folk healers:: maiges and witches; Part III. Toward a Social Interpretation:: 6. The structure of medical practice:: an overview; Afterword; Appendices; Notes; Glossary and note on French money; Index.
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