Doctor of Society

Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England

By:

Roy Porter

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Hardback

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.

Release date NZ

September 8th, 2016

Author

Roy Porter

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Pages

246

Series

Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare

ISBN-13

9781138698802

Product ID

25038222

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