Becoming Poor in Eighteenth-Century Turin

Patients, power and the poor in eighteenth-century Bristol

This is a model of the local case-study approach to social history. Though grounded in an impressive range and volume of local archives, it is internationally comparative and thoroughly unantiquarian. It could stand as a primer for many of the concerns and questions which have preoccupied social historians of medicine of the early modem period in recent years. Dr Fissell offers a contextually-o...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

The President introduced his remarks by a short survey of the social and economic conditions in Bristol in the middle of the eighteenth century, with acknowledgments to Latimer's Annals of Bristol in the eighteenth century, Munro Smith's History of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and other sources. He quoted from English Social History: " Good doctoring rather than better social conditions was the...

Eighteenth Century Medicine in America