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Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe

ISBN: 9780521732567 | 0521732565

Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 8/16/2010

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

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.

Concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.

List of figures	p. x
List of tables	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Sickness and health	p. 11
Plagues and peoples	p. 50
Learned medicine	p. 84
Learning to heal	p. 121
Hospitals and asylums	p. 157
Health and society	p. 193
Healing	p. 235
Conclusi... MOREon	p. 281
Further reading	p. 284
Index	p. 294
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Mary Lindemann is Professor of History at the University of Miami. Her publications include Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany (1996), which was awarded the 1998 William Welch Book Medal Prize by the American Association for the History of Medicine.

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