Dental Practice in Europe at the End of the 18th Century (Clio Medica 72 / The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine) (Clio Medica)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: October 2, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9789042012684
Subjects: Dentistry / oral & maxillofacial medicine; History of medicine; History; History: World; General; 18th century; Dentistry; Dentists; Europe
First sentence: The folk history of dental practice in the eighteenth century is peopled by flamboyant quacks, fraudulent charlatans and bungling barbers and blacksmiths.
Description: Here is presented for the first time an overview of dental practice and the providers of dental treatment at the close of the eighteenth century in some of the major countries of western Europe and further afield. It draws on previously under-explored primary sources, rigorously referenced, and enables comparison of and contrast within the emergent specialty in rapidly-changing social and political environments. The overall picture challenges conventional wisdom and will be of interest to social as well as to dental and medical historians.