Patients, power, and the poor in eighteenth-century Bristol

Patients, power, and the poor in eighteenth-century Bristol / Mary E. Fissell.

Author/creator	Fissell, Mary Elizabeth
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description	xi, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Poor--England --Bristol --Social life and customs. Delivery of Health Care--history --England. History, 18th Century--England. Medical Indigency--history --England. Poverty--England. Patient Participation--history --England. Bristol (England)--Social life and customs.

Series	Cambridge history of medicine Cambridge history of medicine. ^A14537
Contents	Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Everyone their own physician -- 3. The marketplace of medicine -- 4. charity universal? -- 5. The client -- 6. The abdication of the governors -- 7. Surgeons and the medicalization of the hospital -- 8. The patient's perspective-- 9. The reform of popular medicine -- 10. Conclusions -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography-- Index.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index.
ISBN	0521002524
ISBN	9780521002523

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Laupus	Books - Stacks	WZ 70 FE5 F543P 2002	✔ Available	Place Hold