MEDICAL CONFLICTS IN EARLY MODERN LONDON: PATRONAGE, PHYSICIANS, AND IRREGULAR PRACTITIONERS, 1550-1640

"Physicians have had a major role in framing the middle-class values of modern western society, especially those relating to the professions. This book questions the bases of this hegemony, by looking first at the early modern physician's insecurities in terms of status and gender, and then at the wider world of medicine in London which the College of Physicians sought to suppress."--Jacket.