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Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850

By W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter

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About the book

First published in 1987. Even as the professionalism of medicine progressed, many sufferers continued to rely on what would now be termed "fringe" practitioners - quacks, backstreet surgeons, bone-setters, Thomsonian botanists, holists and naturalists. Many types of fringe medicine were popular in particular circles or reflected the political or religious preoccupations of their practitioners. Anti-establishment radicals might favour natural medicine, Christian Scientists would reject the medica...Show more

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9781138391284

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2018

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1

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Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850

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Hardcover

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