Medicine in an age of revolution / / Peter Elmer [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Elmer Peter
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (580 pages)
• Disciplina: 658
• Soggetto topico: Medicine - Great Britain - History - 17th century; Medicine - Political aspects - Great Britain - History - 17th century; Medicine - Great Britain - Religious aspects - History - 17th century; Health and Wellbeing; Medicine: general issues
• Note generali: Also issued in print: 2023.; "This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Premature Death of a Renaissance Commonplace: The Body Politic in Puritan England, 1640-1660 -- Introduction -- Puritan Conceptions of the Body Politic, 1640-1660 -- Sin, Sickness and the Body Politic In Puritan England -- 3. Providing 'Physick for the Body Politick': The Politicization of Healers and Healing in England, 1640-1660 -- Introduction -- Office-Holding, Puritanism and Medical Practice in Civil War England -- The Benefits of Office-Holding -- The Fate of the Loyal: Medical Practitioners and the Defence of Crown And Church -- The Puritanism-Science Debate Revisited: The Case of Medicine -- Iatrochemistry and the English Revolution -- 4. 'By Virtue of our Hermetick Physick, the Head, Heart, and Hands of Hierophants might be Purified': The Society of Chymical Physicians and Medical Reform in Restoration England -- Introduction -- The Society of Chymical Physicians: Politics, Religion and the Struggle for Medical Change in Restoration London -- Accounting for Failure: Religious Radicalism and Medical Reform in Restoration England -- The Fate of Helmontianism in Later Stuart England -- 5. Healers and Healing in the First Age of Party: Medicine, Politics and Dissent -- Introduction -- Medical Practitioners on the Margins: Catholics, Baptists and Quakers -- The Emergence of a Dissenting Medical Tradition in Restoration England -- Medicine as a Refuge for Plotting and Subversion -- 'A Fruitful Mother of Such English Brats': Holland, the Dutch Medical Schools and Political Opposition to the Stuarts -- Medicinal Networks, Plots and the Whig Cause -- A Dissenting Medical Tradition? -- 6. 'Every Corporation a Politick Pest-House': Medicine, Anglicanism and the Tory Reaction, 1660-1688 -- Introduction. ; Administering Physic to the Body Politic: Medical Mayors in Restoration England -- Corporate Governance and Medical Men: The Case of Restoration Gloucester -- Medical Men, Civic Governance and Political 'Crisis' -- Doctors and the Dispensation of Justice in Restoration England -- Anatomizing the Body Politic: Medical Men, Pamphleteering and Loyal Propaganda -- Anglicans, Tories and Medical Innovation -- 7. Conclusions: Medicine in an Age of Revolution -- Appendix 1 (a). Biographical index of medical signatories in favour of the creation of a Society of Chymical Physicians (1665) -- Jeremiah ASTEL (d.1675) -- (Sir) Richard BARKER (c.1622-1686) -- Thomas BARKER -- William BARKLEY or BERKELEY -- Robert BATHURST -- Edward BOLNEST (1627-1703) -- William BOREMAN or BURMAN (d.1707) -- Edward COKE or COOKE -- William CURRER (1617-1668) -- Joseph DEY (1615-1665) -- Sir Kenelm DIGBY (1603-1665) -- John FLOYD -- John FRYER (d.1672) -- William GODDARD (d.1670) -- Thomas HORSINGTON (1619-1666) -- Mr HORSNEL -- James JOLLY (b.1627) -- Johann Sibertus KÜFFELER (1595-1677) -- Nicolas or Nicaise LE FÉVRE (d.1669) -- Pierre MASSONET -- Everard MAYNWARING (c.1629-1713) -- Marchamont NEDHAM (1620-1678) -- Thomas NORTON (d.1669) -- Thomas O'DOWDE (d.1665) -- Thomas SMART -- John SPRANGER (1625-1685) -- George STARKEY (1628-1665) -- George THOMSON (c.1620-1677) -- George THORNLY (d.1665) -- Thomas TILLISON or TILSON -- John TROUTBECK (1612-1684) -- Thomas TROUTBECK -- Robert TURNER (1626-1665/6?) -- Edward WARNER (1612-1691) -- John WILKINSON -- Sir Thomas WILLIAMS (c.1621-1712) -- Mr [George?] WILSON -- Thomas YARDLEY -- Appendix 1 (b). Biographical index of non-medical signatories in favour of the creation of a Society of Chemical Physicians (1665) -- Arthur ANNESLEY, first earl of Anglesey (1614-1686) -- Goring BALLE (d.1683). ; Montague BERTIE, second earl of Lindsey (1607 or 1608-1666) -- Henry BISHOP (1611-1691) -- Richard BRETT -- Robert BRUCE, second earl of Elgin and first earl of Ailesbury (1626-1685) -- Edmund BUTLER, fourth viscount Mountgarett (d.1679) -- James BUTLER, twelfth earl and first duke of Ormond (1610-1688) -- Henry CAVENDISH, Lord Mansfield (1630-1691) -- Martin CLIFFORD (c.1624-1677) -- Colonel Thomas COLEPEPER (1637-1708) -- James COMPTON, third earl of Northampton (1622-1681) -- John CREW, first baron Crewe of Stene (1598-1679) -- Aubrey DE VERE, twentieth earl of Oxford (1627-1703) -- Sir John ERNLE (c.1620-1697) -- Charles GORING, second earl of Norwich (1615-1671) -- Sir George HAMILTON (c.1608-1679) -- Sir Charles HARBORD (1596-1679) -- Humphrey HENCHMAN, bishop of London (1592-1675) -- Philip HERBERT, fifth earl of Pembroke (1621-1669) -- Sir Frescheville HOLLES (1642-1672) -- Charles HOWARD, first earl of Carlisle (1628-1685) -- Henry JERMYN, earl of St Albans (c.1605-1684) -- Sir William KILLIGREW (1606-1695) -- Sir John MENNES (1599-1671) -- Sir William MEYRICK (d.1669) -- George MONCK, first duke of Albemarle (1608-1670) -- Thomas PAULDEN (b.1625) -- Henry PECK (d.1675) -- Edward PROGERS (1621-1713) -- Henry PROGERS (d.1687) -- Sir Geoffrey SHAKERLEY (1619-1696) -- Gilbert SHELDON, archbishop of Canterbury (1598-1677) -- George VILLIERS, second duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) -- Sir Edmund WARCUP (1627-1712) -- Sir John WERDEN (1640-1716) -- Robert WERDEN (c.1622-1690) -- Sir Ralph WHITFIELD (b.1621) -- Appendix 2 (a). Ejected ministers practising medicine after 1660 -- Appendix 2 (b). Sons of ejected ministers who studied and/or practised medicine after the Restoration -- Appendix 2 (c). Sons of ejected ministers apprenticed to London apothecaries -- Appendix 3. Medical mayors -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Medicine in an Age of Revolution' is concerned with the interaction between religion, politics, and medicine in an age of revolutionary upheaval associated with the civil wars in Britain in the mid-seventeenth century. As medical and scientific thinking underwent radical revision, its impact was keenly felt in religious and political circles.
• Titolo autorizzato: Medicine in an age of revolution
• ISBN: 0-19-188838-9; 0-19-259576-8; 0-19-259577-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910765519403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.