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Doctor of Society

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Doctor of Society

By Roy Porter

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About the book

First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession. Roy Porter argues that the outlook of the age of Enlightenment was crucially important in the creation of modern thinking about disease, doctors and society. To illustrate this viewpoint, he focuses on Thomas Beddoes, a prominent doctor of the eighteenth century and examines his challenging, pugnacious, radical and often amusing views on a wide range of issue...Show more

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9781138698819

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2018

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1

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Doctor of Society

Format

Paperback

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