A Fylde Country Practice

Medicine and Society in Lancashire, 1760-1840

I nterest in medical history has grown enormously in recent years. This book draws on sources from various parts of Lancashire to investigate the nature if ill-health among contemporaries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and their medical responses to illness.

Steven King is Chair of the History Department at Oxford Brookes University He writes on the themes of poverty and welfare, European industrialisation, historical demography and medical history. He is the author of the recently-published Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution (Manchester University Press, 2001) .

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