Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial Society

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1. Introduction Roy Porter 2. Murders and miracles: lay attitudes towards medicine in classical antiquity Vivian Nutton 3. Puritan perceptions of illness in seventeenth century England Andrew Wear 4. In sickness and in health: a seventeenth century family's experience Lucinda McCray Beier 5. Participant or patient? seventeenth century childbirth from the mother's point of view Adrian Wilson 6. Piety and the patient: medicine and religion in eighteenth century Bristol Jonathan Barry 7. Cultural habits of illness: the Enlightened and the Pious in eighteenth century Germany Johanna Geyer-Kordesch 8. 'The doctor scolds me': the diaries and correspondence of patients in eighteenth century England Joan Lane 9. Prescribing the rules of health: self-help and advice in the late eighteenth century Ginnie Smith 10. Laymen, doctors and medical knowledge in the eighteenth century: the evidence of the Gentleman's Magazine Roy Porter 11. The colonisation of traditional Arabic medicine Ghada Karmi Index.

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