Editorial: Oxford University Press
Número de páginas: 480 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 28-09-2023
EAN: 9780198853985
ISBN: 978-0-19-885398-5
Precio (sin IVA): 133,72 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 139,07 €
This book is the first major attempt since the 1970s to challenge the idea that the essential engine of medical (and scientific) change in seventeenth-century Britain was puritanism. While Peter Elmer seeks to reaffirm the crucial role of the period of the civil wars and their aftermath in providing the most congenial context for a re-evaluation of traditional attitudes to medicine, he rejects the idea that such initiatives were the special preserve of a small religious elite (puritans), claiming instead that enthusiasm for change can be found across the religious spectrum. At the same time, Elmer seeks to show that medical practitioners were increasingly drawn into contemporary religious and political debates in a way that led to a fundamental politicization of the 'profession'.