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The making of the dentiste, c. 1650-1760 / Roger King.

Title
The making of the dentiste, c. 1650-1760 / Roger King.
Author
King, Roger, 1955-
Publication
Aldershot, Hants ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1998], ©1998.

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Description
x, 231 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The history of medicine in context
Uniform Title
History of medicine in context.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-225) and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: 'Problematizing' the History of Dentistry 1 1 Pretending to Draw Teeth: The Mountebank Drug-seller of the Fairs and Markets 11 2 Drawing Teeth: Practitioners below the Ladder of 'Official'Surgery 34 3 Teeth as Surgical Practice in the Seventeenth Century 52 4 The Fall and Rise of Academic Surgery in the Ancien Regime, and the Appearance of a Surgical Science for the Teeth 63 5 The Making of the Dentiste Technically: Pierre Fauchard, and the Work of the Chirurgien Dentiste 97 6 The Making of the Dentiste Socially: Appearance, Ennoblement and the Court 156.
ISBN
  • 1840146532 (alk. paper)
  • 9781840146530 (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 98027420
  • 99955023943
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries