Publishing and medicine in early modern England
- Title
- Publishing and medicine in early modern England / Elizabeth Lane Furdell.
- Published by
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2002.
- Author
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- Description
- xiii, 282 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book examines the effects of medical publishing on the momentous theoretical and jurisdictional controversies in health care in early modern England.".
- "The simultaneous collapse of medical orthodoxy and the control of medicine in London by the Royal College of Physicians occurred when reform-minded doctors who were trained on the continent, in tandem with surgeons and apothecaries, successfully challenged the professional monopoly held by Oxbridge-educated elites. This work investigates the book trade, the role it played in medicine, and the impact of the debate itself on the public sphere."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Contents
- Ch. 1. English Medical Orthodoxy and Its Challengers -- Ch. 2. London Publishers and Booksellers in the Seventeenth-Century Medical Marketplace -- Ch. 3. "Every Man His Own Doctor": Medical Publishers and Booksellers in Early Modern England -- Ch. 4. Profit or Principle? Religion, Publishing, and Medicine -- Ch. 5. "A Way to Get Wealth": Women, Print, and Medicine -- Ch. 6. Location, Location, Location: Bookshops in London and Medical Controversy -- Ch. 7. Medical Advertising: Publishing the Proprietary -- Ch. 8. Worth a Thousand Words: Medical Illustrations and Their Effect -- Epilogue: After the Rose Case: Assessing the Impact of Print on Medicine in Early Modern England.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-272) and index.