”Alla mina bemödanden hafva strandat emot okunnigheten, lågheten och egennyttan”

This article uses the yearly reports written by Swedish provincial doctors between 1840 and 1900 to discern these doctors’ views of their main group of patients, the peasantry. The doctors habitually portrayed the rural population as fatalistic and ignorant. This description, however, appears dubio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Annelie Drakman
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Lärdomshistoriska samfundet 2013-01-01
Series:Lychnos
Online Access:https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/20560