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Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe Mary Lindemann (University of Miami)

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe By Mary Lindemann (University of Miami)

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe by Mary Lindemann (University of Miami)


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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 Summary

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe by Mary Lindemann (University of Miami)

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.

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe Reviews

Recommended. -Choice
...valuable resource and should be on the reading lists of relevant courses. -Sara Read, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History

About Mary Lindemann (University of Miami)

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.

Table of Contents

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.

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NLS9780521732567
9780521732567
0521732565
Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe by Mary Lindemann (University of Miami)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2010-07-01
314
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