Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe - Mary Lindemann

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe

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Buch | Softcover
314 Seiten
2010 | 2nd Revised edition
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-73256-7 (ISBN)
33,65 inkl. MwSt
Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. The 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.
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.

Mary Lindemann is Professor of History at the University of Miami. Her publications include Health and Healing in Early Modern Germany (1996) which was awarded the 1998 William Welch Book Medal Prize by the American Association for the History of Medicine.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.7.2010
Reihe/Serie New Approaches to European History
Zusatzinfo 7 Tables, black and white; 17 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Gewicht 510 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Sozialgeschichte
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 0-521-73256-5 / 0521732565
ISBN-13 978-0-521-73256-7 / 9780521732567
Zustand Neuware
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