MEDICAL CONFLICTS IN EARLY MODERN LONDON: PATRONAGE, PHYSICIANS, AND IRREGULAR PRACTITIONERS, 1550-1640.
Series: OXFORD STUDIES IN SOCIAL HISTORY
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Published: 2003
Place of publication: OXFORD
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 432
Description: "Physicians have had a major role in framing the middle-class values of modern western society, especially those relating to the professions. This book questions the bases of this hegemony, by looking first at the early modern physician's insecurities in terms of status and gender, and then at the wider world of medicine in London which the College of Physicians sought to suppress."--Jacket.