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Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London

Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London

Patronage, Physicians, and Irregular Practitioners 1550-1640

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Opis
Physicians have had a major role in framing the middle-class values of modern western society, especially those relating to the professions. This book questions the bases of this hegemony, by looking first at the early modern physicians insecurities in terms of status and gender, and then at the wider world of medicine in London which the College of Physicians sought to suppress. The Colleges proceedings against irregular practitioners constitute a case-study in the regulation of an occupation critical for the well-being of contemporary Londoners. However, the College was, it is argued, an anomalous body, detached from most other forms of male authority in the urban context, and its claims lacked social recognition. It used stereotyping to construct an account designed for higher authority, but at the same time, its regulatory efforts were constantly undermined bythe effects of patronage. The so-called irregular practitioners emerge as extremely diverse in country of origin, religious belief, and levels of formal education, yet the full analysis provided here also shows that most were literate, and that a significant number later became members of the College.Many were London artisans, barber-surgeons and apothecaries who can be seen as the excluded middle between the two better-known extremes of the physician and the quack. In suppressing artisan practitioners, the College was also seeking to suppress contractual or citizen medicine, an alternative system of structuring relations between the active patient and the practitioner which was fully integrated in contemporary urban custom and practice, but which has since disappeared. The Collegesselective account also inadvertently reveals the existence of female artisans who practised medicine outside the household routinely and for payment. Although distorted by the Colleges proximity to the Crown and to elite patrons, the Annals of the College give access to the rich variety of medical practice in early modern London and to the forms of resistance and self-presentation with which those outside the College justified, or denied, their identity as practitioners.
Szczegóły produktu
OUP Oxford
85629
9780199257805
9780199257805

Opis

Rok wydania
2003
Numer wydania
1
Oprawa
twarda
Liczba stron
428
Wymiary (mm)
145 x 225
Waga (g)
611
  • Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Conventions; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction: The College and the Middling Sort; Anatomy of an Anxious Institution: Plague and Seasonality; Censorial Activity: The Burdens of Officebearing; Initiation and Pursuit: Sources of Information for a Capital in Flux; Irregular Practitioners: A Wilderness of Mirrors; Gender Compromises: The Female Practitioner and her Connections; Active Patients: Patrons and Parties to Contract; The Effects of Confrontation: Demeanour, Penalties, and Patronage; Conclusions: Defining the Majority; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index;
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