Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)

In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown out these voices. This book argues that changes in the relationship between rich and poor underlay this rise in medicine's authority.Mary E. Fissell is the author of 'Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)', published 1991 under ISBN 9780521400473 and ISBN 0521400473.