Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe

By:

Mary Lindemann

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Hardback

Series:

New Approaches to European History

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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. 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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

July 1st, 2010

Author

Mary Lindemann

Audience

Undergraduate

Edition

2nd Revised edition

Illustrations

7 Tables, black and white; 17 Halftones, black and white

Pages

314

Series

New Approaches to European History

Dimensions

155x234x18

ISBN-13

9780521425926

Product ID

6704302

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