Alun Withey

Physick and the family (eBook, ePUB)

Health, medicine and care in Wales, 1600-1750

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847795083
• Artikelnr.: 57471377

Autorenporträt

Alun Withey is an historian and researcher, and lectures in Early Modern History at the University of Glamorgan and Swansea University.

Inhaltsangabe

Appendices Introduction I. Disease and mortality in early modern Wales 1.
'Fruits of sin, forerunners of dissolution': sickness and disease in early
modern Wales II. Medical knowledge in early modern Wales 2. The Welsh body
and popular medical culture 3. Medicine, oral and print culture 4. An
economy of knowledge: social networks and the spread of medical information
III. Domestic sickness and care in the Welsh home 5. Care and the Welsh
medical home 6. Sickness experience and the 'sick role' 7. Caring for the
sick 8. 'Neighbourliness' and the medical community 9. Conclusion
Bibliography Index