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mods: 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 -- …