Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century
Author : Charles Webster
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 1979-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521226431
Author : Charles Webster
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 1979-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521226431
Author : Charles Webster
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : A. Wear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 1985-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521301121
This book examines the relationship of medicine to those intellectual and social changes which historians call the Renaissance. The contributors describe how the whole range of medicine, from practical therapeutics to surgery, anatomy and pharmacy, was developing. Some important questions about the nature of medicine as it was taught and practised are raised. These include the continuing vigour of Arabic and scholastic medicine, how this was reconciled with the renaissance love of all things Greek and the nature of medicine in different parts of Europe. The chapters are written by acknowledged experts in their subjects and are based on contributions read at a meeting called for the purpose in Cambridge and supported by the Wellcome Trust.
Author : Vivian Nutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1000553809
This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices within their intellectual and social context. Nutton investigates the changes brought about in medicine by the opening-up of the European world to new drugs and new diseases, such as syphilis and the Sweat, and by the development of printing and more efficient means of communication. Chapters examine how civic institutions such as Health Boards, hospitals, town doctors and healers became more significant in the fight against epidemic disease, and special attention is given to the role of women and domestic medicine. The final section, on beliefs, explores the revised Galenism of academic medicine, including a new emphasis on anatomy and its most vocal antagonists, Paracelsians. The volume concludes by considering the effect of religious changes on medicine, including the marginalisation, and often expulsion, of non-Christian practitioners. Based on a wide reading of primary sources from literature and art across Europe, Renaissance Medicine is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the history of medicine and disease in the sixteenth century.
Author : J. Hillis Miller Health Center. Library
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Samuel Kline Cohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0199574022
This title highlights the impact that the plague epidemic in Italy between 1575 and 1578 had on the medical writers and practitioners of the time. He asserts that these writers anticipated modern epidemiology and created the structure for plague classics of the next century.
Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0861933265
This study charts the adoption of medical strategies by the seriously ill and dying, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general practitioner in the early 18th century.
Author : Mary Lindemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521425921
A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.
Author : Charles Webster
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Andrew Wear
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1040250807
The opening studies in this volume, on the revival of Galenic medicine in Continental Europe, provide the context for its focus - England in the 17th century. The author covers the discovery of the circulation of the blood, but it is the underlying components of health and medicine that form the subjects of this book. It deals, notably, with the strong link then perceived between health and the environment, perhaps even more present in people’s minds than today, with the relationship between medicine and religion, and with medical ethics. Further studies discuss the provision made for the sick poor, the popularisation of medicine, and the epistemological basis of learned or university based medicine. A theme throughout is the range of treatments available in the ’medical marketplace’ of the 17th century, from wise women to learned physicians.