Format:
XII, 300 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
2. ed.
ISBN:
9780521425926
,
9780521732567
,
0521425921
Series Statement:
New approaches to European history 16
Content:
"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"--Provided by publisher
Content:
"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"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
,
Machine generated contents note: 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.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Ethnology
,
Medicine
Keywords:
Europa
;
Medizin
;
Geschichte
;
Europa
;
Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen
;
Sozialmedizin
;
Geschichte
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31475
Author information:
Lindemann, Mary
