Ideas and Practices in the History of Medicine, 1650-1820

by Adrian Wilson

Although articles in this volume fall into three thematic clusters, each of those groups exemplifies three general themes: micro-social processes; innovations and the question of continuity versus discontinuity; and the relationship between ideas and practice. Most of these essays touch upon, and some of them are exclusively concerned with, small scale social processes: e.g. the routines of the all-female early-modern childbirth ritual, the different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367739747
• ISBN13: 9780367739744
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"