New Medical Challenges During the Scottish Enlightenment

by Guenter B. Risse

New Medical Challenges explores a wide range of social and medical practices, exposing the contradictions and ambiguities found in eighteenth-century Scottish health, science and medicine. The overall picture casts further light on the nature of the Enlightenment as a cultural phenomenon.
Commercial society created new jobs, wealth and desires, that threatened contemporary values and physical health. Both luxury and poverty took their toll,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042018143
• ISBN13: 9789042018143
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 392 Pages