Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800

A source book
Herausgeber: Elmer, Peter; Grell, Ole Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Health, disease and society in Europe 1500-1800 considers how the body was viewed by the medical profession from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and challenges established ideas in the field of medical history. It examines the provision of medical care in context and how it was shaped by the social, religious, political and cultural concerns of the age. Arranged thematically and with accessible but scholarly introductions, the selection of documents includes contemporary sources, recent research in the field and classical writings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780719067372
• ISBN-10: 0719067375
• Artikelnr.: 22003487

Autorenporträt

Peter Elmer is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Ole Peter Grell is Professor of History at the Open University

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Medical practice and theory: The classical
and medieval heritage 2. The sick body and its healers, 1500-1700 3. The
medical renaissance of the sixteenth century: Vesalius, medical humanism
and bloodletting 4. Medicine and religion in sixteenth-century Europe 5.
Chemical medicine and the challenge to Galenism: The legacy of Paracelsus
6. Charity, the state and public health in early modern Europe 7. New
models of the body, 1600-1800 8. Women and medicine in early modern Europe
9. The care and cure of the insane in early modern Europe 10. War and
medicine in early modern Europe 11. Environment, health and population,
1500-1800 12. European medicine in the age of colonialism 13. Medical
organisation, training and the medical marketplace in eighteenth-century
Europe Index