Author: Özgür Aydın Sarıcıoğlu
Affiliation: Department of History, Boğaziçi University
Published by: Lectern Journal
Edited by: Ahmet Haktan Canpolat
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Abstract

Andrew Cunningham , in the introduction to his chapter Identifying the Disease in the Past, puts forth a question among some very inspiring series of questions that is central to this paper 1 , that whether our conceptions of past diseases within our modern medical frameworks and with it our assumption of a continuous identity on any given disease really, legitimately, mean what we want them to mean.

By examining the Searchers of the 17 th century London and England I therefore attempt to shed light on this particular group of undisputed disease identifiers and bring out for a discussion some of the many different aspects of the searchers’ existence in relation to other social conceptions of their contemporary society; thus, I aim to point out some, if I may, “peculiarities” of the sometimes contradicting and clashing, and at times supporting and complementing relationships between such perspectives and conceptions and briefly discuss their effects in the medicine historiography.

Keywords: Disease Identification, Searchers, Plague, Disease Politics

Citation (Chicago Style):
Özgür Aydın Sarıcıoğlu, “A Brief Discussion On The Searchers Of The 17th Century London And Conceptions Regarding Them, Disease Identification And The Historiography,” Lectern Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (October 2025): 14–26, Istanbul: Manzara Dergi. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17589848

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