{"product_id":"professional-and-popular-medicine-in-france-1770-1830-the-social-world-of-medical-practice-paperback-9780521524605","title":"Professional and Popular Medicine in France 1770–1830; The Social World of Medical Practice (Paperback) 9780521524605","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eProfessional and Popular Medicine in France 1770–1830\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Social World of Medical Practice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA comprehensive study of the entire range of medical practitioners in preindustrial and eraly industrial France.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMatthew Ramsey (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521524605, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 6 June 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e428 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.683 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners who flourished in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it provides a richly detailed examination of medical practice as it existed in France during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Professor Ramsey argues that to penetrate this world, in many ways strangely different from our own, we must join two lines of inquiry: the history of the professions and the history of popular culture. The book considers not only the immediate ancestors of the modern medical profession - university-trained physicians who followed a liberal calling and surgeons who practiced a manual craft - but also the highly diverse group of practitioners who worked without legal authorization: traveling charlatans, local 'urine scanners,' folk healers using herbs and charms, counterwitches, and a great many ordinary people in other trades.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of tables, maps, and illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Professional Medicine: 1. The regular medical network at the end of the Old Regime\u003cbr\u003e 2. The medical profession in the early nineteenth century\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Popular Medicine: 3. Irregulars: itinerants\u003cbr\u003e 4. Irregulars: sedentary empirics\u003cbr\u003e 5. Folk healers: maiges and witches\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Toward a Social Interpretation: 6. The structure of medical practice: an overview\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Glossary and note on French money\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46019774906648,"sku":"9780521524605","price":50.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521524605i_7d16a5dd-ce25-4858-918f-4e824038c497.jpg?v=1691383738","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/professional-and-popular-medicine-in-france-1770-1830-the-social-world-of-medical-practice-paperback-9780521524605","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}