Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

by Mary E. Fissell

Book Overview

In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown out these voices. This book uses patients' perspectives to argue that changes in the relationship between rich and poor underlay this rise in medicine's authority. In a detailed examination of health, healing, and poor relief in eighteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521526930
• ISBN13: 9780521526937
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"