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

Cook, Professor Harold J.

9780801847783: Trials of an Ordinary Doctor: Johannes Groenevelt in Seventeenth-Century London

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801847788 ISBN 13: 9780801847783

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

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 the physicians of London.

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About the Author:

Harold J. Cook is professor and chair, Department of the History of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School.

Review:

"Like the best of the microhistorical genre, Trials of an Ordinary Doctor uses the specifics of a single life to illuminate from a new perspective a breathtaking array of issues and developments, many of which might otherwise not have seemed related at all." -- Wayne te Brake, State University of New York at Purchase

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