Elizabeth Foyster
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781845860165
- eISBN:
- 9781474406017
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781845860165.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
This chapter considers the methods of care and medical services in early modern Dundee, on medical relationships, how the system worked, and the role of women. It shows that although Dundee was ...
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This chapter considers the methods of care and medical services in early modern Dundee, on medical relationships, how the system worked, and the role of women. It shows that although Dundee was without its own centres of medical education and training, its population could resort to a range of medical opinions and resources. Medical care was largely administered at home and often by the patient themselves or other family members. Dundee's authorities took steps to ensure minimum standards of medical care, and medical crises such as plague were managed with some degree of efficiency. It was acceptable for elite women to explore herbal cures that might benefit their families as well as themselves, but by the end of the period, midwives who had hitherto earned their living from their medical knowledge were subject to greater supervision.Less
This chapter considers the methods of care and medical services in early modern Dundee, on medical relationships, how the system worked, and the role of women. It shows that although Dundee was without its own centres of medical education and training, its population could resort to a range of medical opinions and resources. Medical care was largely administered at home and often by the patient themselves or other family members. Dundee's authorities took steps to ensure minimum standards of medical care, and medical crises such as plague were managed with some degree of efficiency. It was acceptable for elite women to explore herbal cures that might benefit their families as well as themselves, but by the end of the period, midwives who had hitherto earned their living from their medical knowledge were subject to greater supervision.
Alastair Couper
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824832391
- eISBN:
- 9780824869946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824832391.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter examines the dangers and hardships experienced by Pacific sailors at sea, including death and unfair and harsh treatment by the captains of foreign ships, and the laws that were ...
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This chapter examines the dangers and hardships experienced by Pacific sailors at sea, including death and unfair and harsh treatment by the captains of foreign ships, and the laws that were introduced ostensibly to protect them. It begins by citing statistics on the mortality rates of Pacific seafarers and goes on to discuss the various factors contributing to seafarer injuries and deaths at sea, including shipwrecks, whaling and other occupational accidents, diseases, suicides, and murder. It also considers the role of unseaworthy vessels and the hazards of attacks on boats and ships close to shore, particularly piracy; medical care for sailors suffering accidents and illnesses; and desertion and mutiny by sailors as a form of protest against abuses and other kinds of ill treatment. The chapter concludes with an assessment of the various laws governing the rights of seafarers.Less
This chapter examines the dangers and hardships experienced by Pacific sailors at sea, including death and unfair and harsh treatment by the captains of foreign ships, and the laws that were introduced ostensibly to protect them. It begins by citing statistics on the mortality rates of Pacific seafarers and goes on to discuss the various factors contributing to seafarer injuries and deaths at sea, including shipwrecks, whaling and other occupational accidents, diseases, suicides, and murder. It also considers the role of unseaworthy vessels and the hazards of attacks on boats and ships close to shore, particularly piracy; medical care for sailors suffering accidents and illnesses; and desertion and mutiny by sailors as a form of protest against abuses and other kinds of ill treatment. The chapter concludes with an assessment of the various laws governing the rights of seafarers.
