Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe
2nd Edition
Part of New Approaches to European History
- Author: Mary Lindemann, University of Miami
- Date Published: July 2010
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521732567
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Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing together the best recent research in the field, Mary Lindemann 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.
Read more- Completely revised and updated edition of Mary Lindemann's acclaimed introduction to the history of medicine in early modern Europe
- Synthesises the latest literature and helps students to navigate through current debates in the field
- Illustrations highlight contemporary views of medicine and the body
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: July 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521732567
- length: 314 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- contains: 17 b/w illus. 7 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Sickness and health
2. Plagues and peoples
3. Learned medicine
4. Learning to heal
5. Hospitals and asylums
6. Health and society
7. Healing
Conclusion
Further reading.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Medicine and Society in Europe 1500-1800
- Popular Culture in Early Modern Britain
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