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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.Fissell, Mary Elizabeth is the author of 'Patients, Power, and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol' with ISBN 9780521526937 and ISBN 0521526930.
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