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Medicalizing the Surgical Trade, 1650–1820: Workers, Knowledge, Markets and Politics

La médicalisation du métier de chirurgie, 1650-1820: travailleurs, marchés et politiques

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Since Toby Gelfand’s Professionalising Modern Medicine (1981) historians have investigated surgical practices across Europe, sketching a narrative of Early Modern changes that shaped surgery as part of a growing medical industry. The chapter investigates significant issues concerning surgeons’ identities, their workplace and work hierarchies, as they have been addressed by recent historical studies. It looks at educational patterns, therapeutic practices, technologies, as well as commodification, and the growing importance of charity funding as well as surgeons’ non-therapeutic or expert activities for town governments and as counsellors of imperial states in a changing world, in which urbanization, industrialization, warfare, and colonization played a significant role.
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hal-03949260 , version 1 (20-01-2023)

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Christelle Rabier. Medicalizing the Surgical Trade, 1650–1820: Workers, Knowledge, Markets and Politics. Schlich, Thomas. The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp.71-94, 2018, 978-1-349-95259-5. ⟨10.1057/978-1-349-95260-1_4⟩. ⟨hal-03949260⟩
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