Book Description
A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.
Author : Mary Lindemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521425921
A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.
Author : Nancy G. Siraisi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226761312
Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era in medicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and illustrates the connections of medicine to both natural philosophy and technical skills.
Author : Daniel Schäfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317324099
This book takes a thematic look at the historical roots of the debate surrounding old age and disease.
Author : L. Whaley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 26,31 MB
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0230295177
Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9004386467
Medicine and the Inquisition offers a wide-ranging and subtle account of the role played by the Roman, Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions in shaping medical learning and practice in the early modern world.
Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0199546495
In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explore medical developments and trends in writing history according to period, place, and theme.
Author : John Cunningham
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1526145154
This book contains substantial new historical research on medicine in early modern Ireland. Its twelve chapters address a variety of subjects and situate them in appropriate contexts. The main focus is on medical practitioners and their place in Irish society. The book makes a major contribution to scholarship on early modern medicine.
Author : John Slater
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317098382
Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their own ideas about sickness and health. These ideas were, in turn, influenced by local cultures. This volume tells the story of encounters among medical cultures in the early modern Spanish empire. The twelve chapters draw upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from drama, poetry, and sermons to broadsheets, travel accounts, chronicles, and Inquisitorial documents; and it surveys a tremendous regional scope, from Mexico, to the Canary Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and Germany. Together, these essays propose a new interpretation of the circulation, reception, appropriation, and elaboration of ideas and practices related to sickness and health, sex, monstrosity, and death, in a historical moment marked by continuous cross-pollination among institutions and populations with a decided stake in the functioning and control of the human body. Ultimately, the volume discloses how medical cultures provided demographic, analytical, and even geographic tools that constituted a particular kind of map of knowledge and practice, upon which were plotted: the local utilities of pharmacological discoveries; cures for social unrest or decline; spaces for political and institutional struggle; and evolving understandings of monstrousness and normativity. Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire puts the history of early modern Spanish medicine on a new footing in the English-speaking world.
Author : Alanna Skuse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137487534
This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern England. Looking to drama, poetry and polemic as well as medical texts and personal accounts, it contends that early modern people possessed an understanding of cancer which remains recognizable to us today. Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer – as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast' inside the body – remain strikingly familiar, and they helped to make this disease a byword for treachery and cruelty in discussions of religion, culture and politics. Equally, cancer treatments were among the era's most radical medical and surgical procedures. From buttered frog ointments to agonizing and dangerous surgeries, they raised abiding questions about the nature of disease and the proper role of the medical practitioner.
Author : Elizabeth Lane Furdell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9004146636
This collection of twelve essays explores various aspects in the development of medicine from the Middle Ages to 1700 with a particular emphasis on revisiting original texts for new insights in the culture of healing.