Was there a “popular medicine” in early modern Europe

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8047357
AutoresDavid Gentilcore (0000-0002-6035-3129, Bluefrog Design (United Kingdom), autor correspondente)
Ano2004
Volume115
Fascículo2
Páginas151-166
Data de publicação2004-07-27
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFolklore (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0015587042000231255
OpenAlexW2053589841
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas16

This article considers the current trend to "problematise" popular culture, and with it the category "popular medicine" as established in the "popular errors" literature of the early modern period, and maintained in the modern era by folklorist‐doctors such as Guiseppe Pitrè. Recent social historians of medicine have been increasingly dismissive of notions of a separate, usually magical "popular medicine," instead offering models of diffusion of medical knowledge from the centre to the periphery. Based on Italian evidence, this article argues that, although it is impossible to draw absolute distinctions between schooled medical professionals, ecclesiastical healers, and illiterate "wise‐women," there were important differences in the guiding mentality behind each approach

Aesthetics · Art · Folklore · Folkloristics · Late 19th century · Literature · Media studies · Medical education · Medical knowledge · Modern medicine · Period (music · Popular culture · Social science · Sociology · Traditional medicine · European Political History Analysis · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Medicine