Professional and Popular Medicine in France 1770-1830: The Social World of Medical Practice » (First Paperback Edition)

A comprehensive study of the entire range of medical practitioners in preindustrial and eraly industrial France.

List of tables, maps, and illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction;

Part I. Professional Medicine:

1. The regular medical network at the end of the Old Regime;
2. The medical profession in the early nineteenth century;

Part II. Popular Medicine:
3. Irregulars: itinerants;
4. Irregulars: sedentary empirics;
5. Folk healers: maiges and witches;

Part III. Toward a Social Interpretation:
6. The structure of medical practice: an overview; Afterword; Appendices; Notes; Glossary and note on French money; Index.