Mary Lindemann (University of Miami)

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• New Approaches to European History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780521732567
• ISBN-10: 0521732565
• Artikelnr.: 29012153

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.