In Sickness and in Health

by Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter

Through the interpretation of material gleaned from diaries, letters and memoirs, the authors outline the everyday history of medicine, from the Restoration to the Victorian era. Topics keeping well, pain, coping and resignation, and death. Contains a 37-page bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

324 pages, Hardcover

Published January 15, 1991

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Professor of the History of Medicine and Health Science at University of California, San Fransisco, since 2002. Third wife of eminent historian of medicine, Roy Porter.