LEADER 03636nam 22006612 450 001 9911008458303321 005 20151002020706.0 010 $a1-282-98758-5 010 $a9786612987588 010 $a1-84615-715-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781846157158 035 $a(CKB)2670000000067291 035 $a(EBL)661937 035 $a(OCoLC)705538894 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000468577 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11303668 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468577 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10506880 035 $a(PQKB)11084586 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781846157158 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC661937 035 $a(DE-B1597)676734 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781846157158 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000067291 100 $a20120511d2009|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe dying and the doctors $ethe medical revolution in seventeenth-century England /$fIan Mortimer 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (232 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in history. New series,$x0269-2244 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 08$a0-86193-326-5 311 08$a0-86193-302-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-221) and index. 327 $aThe medicalisation of East Kent -- The medicalisation of central southern England -- The availability and nature of medical assistance -- Medical practices -- The nature and availability of nursing care -- Plague and smallpox. 330 $aA survey of the changes in medical care for those approaching death in the early modern period. From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general practitioner in the early eighteenth century. It is this profound revolution, in both medical and religious terms, as whole communities' hopes for physical survival shifted from God to the doctor, that this book charts. Drawing on more than eighteen thousand probate accounts, it identifies massive increases in the consumption of medicines and medical advice by all social groups and in almost all areas. Most importantly, it examines the role of the towns in providing medical services to rural areas and hinterlands [using the diocese of Canterbury as a particular focus], and demonstrates the extending ranges of physicians', surgeons' and apothecaries' businesses. It also identifies a comparable revolution in community nursing, from its unskilled status in 1600 to a more exclusive one by 1700. IAN MORTIMER is an independent historian and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. 410 0$aRoyal Historical Society studies in history.$pNew series. 517 3 $aThe Dying & the Doctors 606 $aMedicine$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aMedical care$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aPublic health$xSocial aspects$zEngland$xHistory 607 $aEngland$xSocial conditions$y17th century 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory 615 0$aMedical care$xHistory 615 0$aPublic health$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 676 $a610.94209032 686 $aXB 3688$qBSZ$2rvk 700 $aMortimer$b Ian$f1967-$01145298 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008458303321 996 $aThe dying and the doctors$94396290 997 $aUNINA