Mary Lindemann

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9780521425926
• ISBN-10: 0521425921
• Artikelnr.: 30206479

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.