Title Divine doctors and dreadful distempers : how practicing medicine became a respectable profession / Christi Sumich.

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Description	1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Clio medica ; 91
	Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 91.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-307) and index.
Summary	Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers examines the discourse of seventeenth-century English physicians to demonstrate that physicians utilized cultural attitudes and beliefs to create medical theory. They meshed moralism with medicine to self-fashion an image of themselves as knowledgeable health experts whose education assured good judgment and sage advice, and whose interest in the health of their patients surpassed the peddling of a single nostrum to everyone. The combination of morality with medicine gave them the support of the influential godly in society because physicians' theories ab.
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Subject	Physicians -- History.
	Physicians.
	History.
	Medicine -- Practice -- History.
	Medicine -- Practice.
	Physicians -- history.
	Professional Role -- history.
	Religion and Medicine.
	England.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Sumich, Christi Keating, author. Divine doctors and dreadful distempers 9789042036888 (DLC) 2013444292 (OCoLC)861895455
ISBN	9789401209472 (electronic book)
	9401209472 (electronic book)
	1306167450 (e-book)
	9781306167451 (e-book)
	9789042036888
	9042036885