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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521425926
eBay Product ID (ePID)
404317300
Product Key Features
Author
Mary Lindemann
Publication Name
Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, History
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
314 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
630g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Mary Lindemann
Series Title
New Approaches to European History
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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