– (The History of Medicine in Context) 1. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hampshire GU11 3HR EnglandĪshgate Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington, VT 05401-4405 USAĪshgate website: British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Payne, Lynda With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England. Lynda Payne has asserted her moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. With Words and Knives Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England Titles in this series include: Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe Edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham The Making of Addiction The ‘Use and Abuse’ of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain Louise Foxcroft Melancholy and the Care of the Soul Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England Jeremy Schmidt Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France The Crown, Urban Elites and the Poor Tim McHugh The Great Nation in Decline Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c.1750–1850 Sean M.

The History of Medicine in Context Series Editors: Andrew Cunningham and Ole Peter Grell Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge Department of History Open University

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