The making of the dentiste, c. 1650-1760
By: Roger King.
Series: The history of medicine in context
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants; Brookfield, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Dentistry -- France -- History -- 17th century.; Dentistry -- France -- History -- 18th century.; Dentists -- France -- History -- 17th century.; Dentists -- France -- History -- 18th century.; History of Dentistry -- France.; Surgery -- history -- France.; Barber Surgeons -- history -- France.; History of Medicine, 18th Cent. -- France.
Description: "The early decades of the eighteenth century saw the appearance of a completely new type of surgical practitioner in France: the dentiste. The use of this title was of the utmost significance, indicating not just the making of a new practitioner but of an entirely new practice - the dentiste was, quite literally, making a name for himself. Appearing on the back of dramatic changes within surgery in general, the practice of the dentiste, although it focused only on the teeth, was nevertheless extensive. An innovative, wide-ranging field of operations was now on offer, the performance of which had only been hinted at by the surgeon of the seventeenth century."--BOOK JACKET.

"This book places the making of the dentiste within social, political and technical contexts and re-contextualises the purely progressive stories told in conventional histories of dentistry. In doing so, it brings surgery back to its central role in this story, and reveals for the first time the origins of the dentiste in the French surgical profession."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: 'Problematizing' the History of Dentistry 1 1 Pretending to Draw Teeth: The Mountebank Drug-seller of the Fairs and Markets 11 2 Drawing Teeth: Practitioners below the Ladder of 'Official'Surgery 34 3 Teeth as Surgical Practice in the Seventeenth Century 52 4 The Fall and Rise of Academic Surgery in the Ancien Regime, and the Appearance of a Surgical Science for the Teeth 63 5 The Making of the Dentiste Technically: Pierre Fauchard, and the Work of the Chirurgien Dentiste 97 6 The Making of the Dentiste Socially: Appearance, Ennoblement and the Court 156.