The Dying and the Doctors: The Medical Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England

by Ian Mortimer

Book Overview

From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general practitioner in the early eighteenth century. It is this profound revolution, in both medical and religious terms, as whole communities' hopes for physical survival shifted from God to the doctor, that this book charts. Drawing on more...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861933028
• ISBN13: 9780861933020
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Royal Historical Society
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"