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Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe
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Concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.
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The Quest for Mental Health
The desire to be happy and free of emotional distress is as old as time itself, but nothing has matched the concerted and costly campaign waged over the last two hundred years to achieve mental well-being. As populations increasingly invest in the attainment of psychological well-being, the incidence of mental and emotional illness rises worrisomely; yet as Ian Dowbiggin shows, the quest continues undaunted. Drawing on years of research in the field, Dowbiggin argues that this trend will persist as long as consumerism and therapism, the widespread dependence on the psychological sciences to ease the troubles of everyday life, continue to hold sway over the hearts and minds of people around the world.
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