The Decline of the Old Medical Regime in Stuart London / / Harold J. Cook.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Cook, Harold J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 11 b&w illustrations

Harold J. Cook traces the history of London's college of Physicians from the time of its greatest authority in the 1630s until its juridical failure in 1704. His account of the changes in medical regulation that took place during this period forces a rethinking of the relations among medical practice, intellectual values, and the changing economic and cultural framework of seventeenth-century London.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Plates -- Preface -- Note on Spelling, Dates, and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Medical Marketplace of London -- 2. Knowledge and Power: The London College of Physicians -- 3. Revolution and Reform: Changing the Enterprise of Physic, 1630—1660 -- 4. Political Weaknesses and Intellectual Threats, 1660—1672 -- 5. The Restoration of the Old Order, 1672—1688 -- 6. The Decline of the Old Medical Order, 1689—1704 -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index