Medicine in an age of revolution Elmer, Peter creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk 2023 2023 monographic eng remote 1 online resource. 'Medicine in an Age of Revolution' is concerned with the interaction between religion, politics, and medicine in an age of revolutionary upheaval associated with the civil wars in Britain in the mid-seventeenth century. As medical and scientific thinking underwent radical revision, its impact was keenly felt in religious and political circles. Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Premature Death of a Renaissance Commonplace: The Body Politic in Puritan England, 1640-1660 -- Introduction -- Puritan Conceptions of the Body Politic, 1640-1660 -- Sin, Sickness and the Body Politic In Puritan England -- 3. Providing 'Physick for the Body Politick': The Politicization of Healers and Healing in England, 1640-1660 -- Introduction -- Office-Holding, Puritanism and Medical Practice in Civil War England -- The Benefits of Office-Holding The Fate of the Loyal: Medical Practitioners and the Defence of Crown And Church -- The Puritanism-Science Debate Revisited: The Case of Medicine -- Iatrochemistry and the English Revolution -- 4. 'By Virtue of our Hermetick Physick, the Head, Heart, and Hands of Hierophants might be Purified': The Society of Chymical Physicians and Medical Reform in Restoration England -- Introduction -- The Society of Chymical Physicians: Politics, Religion and the Struggle for Medical Change in Restoration London -- Accounting for Failure: Religious Radicalism and Medical Reform in Restoration England The Fate of Helmontianism in Later Stuart England -- 5. Healers and Healing in the First Age of Party: Medicine, Politics and Dissent -- Introduction -- Medical Practitioners on the Margins: Catholics, Baptists and Quakers -- The Emergence of a Dissenting Medical Tradition in Restoration England -- Medicine as a Refuge for Plotting and Subversion -- 'A Fruitful Mother of Such English Brats': Holland, the Dutch Medical Schools and Political Opposition to the Stuarts -- Medicinal Networks, Plots and the Whig Cause -- A Dissenting Medical Tradition? 6. 'Every Corporation a Politick Pest-House': Medicine, Anglicanism and the Tory Reaction, 1660-1688 -- Introduction -- Administering Physic to the Body Politic: Medical Mayors in Restoration England -- Corporate Governance and Medical Men: The Case of Restoration Gloucester -- Medical Men, Civic Governance and Political 'Crisis' -- Doctors and the Dispensation of Justice in Restoration England -- Anatomizing the Body Politic: Medical Men, Pamphleteering and Loyal Propaganda -- Anglicans, Tories and Medical Innovation -- 7. Conclusions: Medicine in an Age of Revolution Appendix 1 (a). Biographical index of medical signatories in favour of the creation of a Society of Chymical Physicians (1665) -- Jeremiah ASTEL (d.1675) -- (Sir) Richard BARKER (c.1622-1686) -- Thomas BARKER -- William BARKLEY or BERKELEY -- Robert BATHURST -- Edward BOLNEST (1627-1703) -- William BOREMAN or BURMAN (d.1707) -- Edward COKE or COOKE -- William CURRER (1617-1668) -- Joseph DEY (1615-1665) -- Sir Kenelm DIGBY (1603-1665) -- John FLOYD -- John FRYER (d.1672) -- William GODDARD (d.1670) -- Thomas HORSINGTON (1619-1666) -- Mr HORSNEL -- James JOLLY (b.1627) Specialized. specialized Peter Elmer. Also issued in print: 2023. "This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Medicine Great Britain History 17th century Medicine Political aspects Great Britain History 17th century Medicine Great Britain Religious aspects History 17th century Health Health Médecine Grande-Bretagne Histoire 17e siècle Médecine Aspect politique Grande-Bretagne Histoire 17e siècle Médecine Grande-Bretagne Aspect religieux Histoire 17e siècle Santé health Europe Renaissance Social History History MEDICAL Medicine Medicine Political aspects Medicine Religious aspects Great Britain Medicine: general issues Health and Wellbeing 1600-1699 fast R148 .E44 2023 R486 610.94109032 Medicine in an age of revolution Elmer, Peter. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023 (DLC) 2023935833 (OCoLC)1371137478 9780191888380 0191888389 9780198853985 9780192595768 0192595768 019885398X 9780192595775 0192595776 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/47103 STBDS 230713 20260318165918.5 in00005698622 eng