Doctor of Society: Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England

by Roy Porter

Book Overview

First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession. Roy Porter argues that the outlook of the age of Enlightenment was crucially important in the creation of modern thinking about disease, doctors and society. To illustrate this viewpoint, he focuses on Thomas Beddoes, a prominent doctor of the eighteenth century and examines his challenging, pugnacious, radical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138698806
• ISBN13: 9781138698802
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"