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Allan Chapman

The Medicine of the People

A history of popular medicine before the National Health Service

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So much research in the history of medicine has been devoted to the development of medicine as a progressive science. The Medicine of the People, however, looks at the medical perceptions of lay people over the last four centuries. Lying at the heart of these perceptions is a set of ideas first formulated by Hippocrates, Aristotle and other ancient Greek physicians, which tried to understand illness in terms of vital properties. These included the four Humours of Yellow Bile, Black Bile, Blood and Phlegm, the centrality of the heart as a 'sensitive' organ, the brain as a cooling plant for the blood, and health as a state of balance between ho… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-85244-931-8
  • EAN: 9780852449318
  • Produktnummer: 29402329
  • Verlag: Gracewing Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.3 cm 368 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 368

Über den Autor


Allan Chapman is a graduate of the University of Lancaster; he received his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and holds three honorary doctorates from other British universities. He is the author of The Victorian Amateur Astronomer and The Medicine of the People, both also published by Gracewing, as well as ten other books on the history of science. A historian of science and medicine, he lectures in the Faculty of History at Oxford University, is a Member of Wadham College and an Associate Member of Christ Church Senior Common Room, Oxford.

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