CONTENTS
List of tables, maps, and illustrations = ⅸ
Preface = xi
Acknowledgments = xiv
Introduction: Professionalization and popular cultureapproach and methods = 1
PART I. PROFESSIONAL MEDICINE
1 The regular medical network at the end of the Old Regime = 17
The traditional structure of the regular network = 18
Professional institutions = 38
Medical and surgical practice = 45
Access to a medical career = 49
Social and economic status = 54
Density and distribution of personnel = 58
Costs of professional services = 62
Attitudes toward the medical profession = 65
2 The medical profession in the early nineteenth century = 71
The revolutionary decade = 71
The medical profession and the laws of Vent$$\hot o$$se and Germinal = 77
Who was coopted into the new sytem? = 84
Professional institutions = 105
Access to a medical career = 108
Social and economic status = 110
Access to a practitioner = 115
Attitudes toward the medical profession = 122
PART II. POPULAR MEDICINE
3 Irregulars: itinerants = l29
The old-style mountebank and other charlatans = 132
Varieties of itinerancy: peddlers, marginals, and inspired healers = 164
4 Irregulars: sedentary empirics = 176
Remedy vendors = 177
Varieties of empiricism = 182
The population of empirics: numbers, density, distribution = 204
Sedentary empiricism: a social and economic analysis = 213
5 Folk healers: maiges and witches = 229
The folk practitioner: concepts and approaches = 230
Maiges = 239
Witches and devins-gu$$\acute e$$risseurs = 264
PART III. TOWARD A SOCIAL INTERPRETATION
6 The structure of medical practice: an overview = 279
Rivalry and cooperation = 279
The market for medical services = 284
Medical practitioners and society = 291
Medical practice and social change = 296
Afterword: medicalization and social theory = 299
Appendix A: Density of French medical personnel in the nineteenth century = 302
Appendix B: Seme itinerant empirics, 1802-1844 = 306
Appendix C: Some French remedy sellers, 1773-1830 = 309
Appendix D: Some empirics and their occupations, 1775-1838 = 311
Notes = 313
Glossary and note on French money = 387
Index = 391
