Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London by Margaret Pelling

Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London by Margaret Pelling

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A comprehensive analysis of the single record, which details the multifarious medical practitioners in early modern London. It reveals the attitudes and realities in the conflict between the College of Physicians and the practitioners, male and female, whom the College regarded as illicit or irregular.

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Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London by Margaret Pelling

A comprehensive analysis of the single record, which details the multifarious medical practitioners in early modern London. It reveals the attitudes and realities in the conflict between the College of Physicians and the practitioners, male and female, whom the College regarded as illicit or irregular.
The result of many years' painstaking research, this is an important and multi-faceted contribution to our knowledge of English medicine in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries - a period which has attracted much less historical attention than that after 1640* History *
Margaret Pelling is the author of Work for Four Hands and her short stories have appeared in three anthologies. She is a member of the Oxford Writers' Group, Writers in Oxford, and the Society of Civil and Public Service Writers.
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ISBN 13 9780199257805
ISBN 10 0199257809
Title Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London
Author Margaret Pelling
Series Oxford Studies In Social History
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2003-06-05
Number of pages 428
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