Professional and Popular Medicine in France 1770 1830: The Social World of Medical Practice

by Matthew Ramsey

This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners who flourished in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it provides a richly detailed examination of medical practice as it existed in France during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Professor Ramsey argues that to penetrate this world, in many ways strangely different from our own,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521524601
• ISBN13: 9780521524605
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"