Medicine in the Enlightenment / / Roy Porter.

• Superior document: Clio Medica ; 29
• TeilnehmendeR: Roy, Porter,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 1995.
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Clio Medica ; 29.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The interpretation of eighteenth-century medicine has been much contested. Some have view it as a wilderness of rationalism and arid theories between the Scientific Revolution and the astonishing changes of the nineteenth-century. Other scholars have emphasized the close and fruitful links between m...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• 1. The Politics of Committal to Early Modern Bethlem
• Jonathan ANDREWS
• Medical Reform, the Enlightenment and Physician-Power in Late Eighteenth-Century France
• L.W.B. BROCKLISS
• Whose Enlightenment? Medicine, Witchcraft, Melancholia and Pathology
• Johanna GEYER-KORDESCH
• Sarah Stone, Enlightenment Midwife
• Isobel GRUNDY
• Developing Medical Expertise: Medical Practitioners and the Suspected Murders of New-Born Children
• Mark JACKSON
• Reflections on Medical Reform: Cabanis' Coup d'Œuil
• Ludmilla J. JORDANOVA
• The Enlightenment Encountered: The German Physicus and His World, 1750-1820
• Mary LINDEMANN
• Conflicting Attitudes Towards Inoculation in Enlightenment Germany
• Andreas-Holger MAEHLE
• Honeyed Words: Bernard Mandeville and Medical Discourse
• Francis MCKEE
• Shaping Psychiatric Knowledge: The Role of the Asylum
• Roy PORTER
• Vitalism, Disease and Society
• Roselyne REY
• The Weight of Evidence and the Burden of Authority: Case Histories, Medical Statistics and Smallpox Inoculation
• Andrea A. RUSNOCK
• Methodism and Dr George Cheyne's 'More Enlightening Principles'
• David E. SHUTTLETON
• Anti-Lockean Enlightenment? Mind and Body in Early Eighteenth-Century English Medicine
• Akihito SUZUKI
• An Enlightenment Science? Surgery and the Royal Society
• Philip WILSON
• Index.