ABSTRACT
In the early modern centuries a body of popularized medical writings appeared, telling ordinary people how they could best take care of their own health. Often written be doctors, such books gave simple advice for home treatments, while commonly warning of the dangers of magic, quackery, old wive's tales and faith-healing. The Popularization of Medicine explores the rise of this form of people's medicine, from the early days of printing to the Victorian age, focusing on the different experiences of Britain, the Continent and North America.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|30 pages
Acquiring surgical know-how
Occupational and lay instruction in early eighteenth-century London
chapter 8|17 pages
Spreading Medical Enlightenment
The Popularization of Medicine in Georgian England, and its Paradoxes
chapter 9|20 pages
'But all those Authors are Foreigners'
American Literary Nationalism and Domestic Medical Guides
