Call The Doctor: A Social History of Medical Men
by E S Turner
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Quality Book Club Edition - in good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.
This is not a history of medicine but a study of the doctor himself and of the varying esteem in which he has been held in the community. It begins in the days when he was beginning to shake himself free from soothsayers, philosophers and theologians. It describes the furious quarrels between physicians, surgeons, apothecaries and quacks, in which the patient tended to be forgotten, and traces the emergence of the General Practitioner with his jars of leeches and his stethoscope in his top-hat. It deals with the royal doctor (nervously performing with operation which may end his career or bring him a baronetcy), the fashionable London doctor (charging a guinea a mile for visits outside the metropolis), the country doctor riding up the endless lanes and glens asleep on his horse, the spa doctor, the lackey doctor in the rich hypochondriac's entourage, the 'penny a week doctor', the Medical Officer of Health and a score of others.
This is not a history of medicine but a study of the doctor himself and of the varying esteem in which he has been held in the community. It begins in the days when he was beginning to shake himself free from soothsayers, philosophers and theologians. It describes the furious quarrels between physicians, surgeons, apothecaries and quacks, in which the patient tended to be forgotten, and traces the emergence of the General Practitioner with his jars of leeches and his stethoscope in his top-hat. It deals with the royal doctor (nervously performing with operation which may end his career or bring him a baronetcy), the fashionable London doctor (charging a guinea a mile for visits outside the metropolis), the country doctor riding up the endless lanes and glens asleep on his horse, the spa doctor, the lackey doctor in the rich hypochondriac's entourage, the 'penny a week doctor', the Medical Officer of Health and a score of others.
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- Seller
- DASHbooks (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- DASHbooks44
- Title
- Call The Doctor
- Author
- E S Turner
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- turner, call, doctor, social, history, medical, men, soothsayers, physician, surgeon, apothecary, quacks, patient, stethoscope, leeches, operation, royal, officer, health, social history of medical men, call the doctor,
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- Social History; Medical;
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