Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (Second Edition)
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- Synopsis
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This book offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing together the best recent research in the field, the author examines medicine from a social and cultural perspective, rather than a narrowly scientific one.
Drawing on medical anthropology, sociology, and ethics as well as cultural and social history, she focuses on the experience of illness and on patients and folk healers as much as on the rise of medical science, doctors, and hospitals. This second edition has been updated and revised throughout in content, style, and interpretations, and new material has been added, in particular, on colonialism, exploration, and women.
Accessibly written and full of fascinating insights, this will be essential reading for all students of the history of medicine and will provide invaluable context for students of early modern Europe more generally.
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 313 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780521732567
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/29/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Mary Lindemann
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Medicine
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.