The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century

, by Edited by Andrew Cunningham , Roger French

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ISBN: 9780521030953 | 0521030951
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/23/2006

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A series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and the increased use of reason.

List of illustrations
List of tables
Preface
Introduction
The politics of medical improvement in early Hanoverian London
Medicine to calm the mind: Boerhaave's medical system, and why it was adopted in
Georg Ernst Stahl's radical Pietist medicine and its influence on the German Enlightenment
Sickness and the soul: Stahl, Hoffman and Sauvages on pathology
Sauvages's nosology: medical enlightenment in Montpellier
Honour and property: the structure of professional disputes in eighteenth-century English medicine
Medicine, morality and the politics of Berkeley's tar-water
North America, a western outpost of European medicine
John Haygarth, smallpox and religious Dissent in eighteenth-century England Francis
'Living in the light': dispensaries, philanthropy and medical reform in late-eighteenth-century London
Measuring virtue: eudiometry, enlightenment and pneumatic medicine
Index
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The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century

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