East African doctors: a history of the modern profession

نویسنده

  • Helen Power
چکیده

available to surgeons is most clearly seen in the field of dental surgery. Scientific and technical knowledge increased so much that some surgeons began to specialize in certain fields of which dentistry was one of the first to develop. By the start of the eighteenth century it was possible for some surgeons in Paris to exist solely as dentists, the most notable example being Pierre Fauchard, author of the world's first dental text. Perhaps the only weakness in King's otherwise splendid work is his emphasis on the involvement of the crown in the social acceptance of dentistry as a profession in the mid-eighteenth century. King contends that the ennobling of Louis XV's personal dentists in 1745 and 1767 helped to spread the practice of dentistry first to the elites in Paris and then to those of the kingdom as a whole. However, much of the evidence given by the author in the earlier chapters contradicts this line of thought. Pierre Fauchard treated nobles in Paris for aesthetic reasons in the 1710s and 1720s, long before the post of dentiste du roi was invented, which would suggest that the benefits of dentistry had already been accepted by polite society. Despite this, King's book makes a valuable contribution to the history of early modern medicine.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Medical History

دوره 44  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000