The common lot : sickness, medical occupations, and the urban poor in early modern England : essays / by Margaret Pelling.

The common lot : sickness, medical occupations, and the urban poor in early modern England : essays / by Margaret Pelling.

London ; New York : Longman, 1998.

xiv, 270 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. The Urban Environment. 1. Medicine and the Environment in Shakespeare's England. 2. Food, Status and Knowledge: Attitudes to Diet in Early Modern England. 3. Illness among the Poor in Early Modern English Towns. 4. Healing the Sick Poor: Social Policy and Disability in Norwich, 1550-1640
Pt. II. Agegroups and Gender. 5. Child Health as a Social Value in Early Modern England. 6. Old Age, Poverty and Disability in Early Modern Norwich: Work, Remarriage and Other Expedients. 7. Older Women: Household, Caring and Other Occupations in the Late Sixteenth-century Town
Pt. III. Occupations. 8. Nurses and Nursekeepers: Problems of Identification in the Early Modern Period. 9. Occupational Diversity: Barber-surgeons and Other Trades, 1550-1640. 10. Trade or Profession? Medical Practice in Early Modern England.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

RA418.5.P6 P45 1998