Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol (Paperback)

List of tables, figures, and maps; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Everyone their own physician; 3. The marketplace of medicine; 4. charity universal?; 5. The client; 6. The abdication of the governors; 7. Surgeons and the medicalization of the hospital; 8. The patient's perspective; 9. The reform of popular medicine; 10. Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.