Trials of an Ordinary Doctor: Johannes Groenevelt in Seventeenth-Century London

by Harold J. Cook and Professor Harold J. Cook

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Harold J. Cook's microhistory shows how a medical malpractice case against an otherwise obscure Dutch physician in London became the center of one of the era's great medical controversies. He shows how society and politics, as well as the scientific and professional uncertainties and jealousies of the early Enlightenment, helped dictate the course of one man's life--and how the actions he took against those forces helped bring down the authority of...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801847788

ISBN13:9780801847783

Release Date:June 1994

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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