The Popularization of Medicine

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10 0415072174

ISBN-13 9780415072175

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 4th, 1992

Print length 308 Pages

Weight 478 grams

Dimensions 14.90 x 22.60 x 2.70 cms

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Explores the rise of popularized medical writings which gave simple advice for home treatments, charting the rise from the Victorian age and focusing on the different experiences of Britain, the Continent and North America.

In the early modern centuries a body of popularized medical writings appeared, telling ordinary people how they could best take care of their own health. Often written be doctors, such books gave simple advice for home treatments, while commonly warning of the dangers of magic, quackery, old wive''s tales and faith-healing. The Popularization of Medicine explores the rise of this form of people''s medicine, from the early days of printing to the Victorian age, focusing on the different experiences of Britain, the Continent and North America.

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