Margaret Pelling

The Common Lot

Sickness, Medical Occupations and the Urban Poor in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

This important collection of Margaret Pelling's essays brings together her key studies of health, medicine and poverty in Tudor and Stuart England - including a number published here for the first time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781138155978
• ISBN-10: 1138155977
• Artikelnr.: 65956282

Autorenporträt

Margaret Pelling

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.
PART ONE THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
1. Medicine and the Environment in Shakespeare's England.
2. Food, Status and Knowledge: Attitudes to Diet in Early Modern England.
3. Illness among the Poor in Early Modern English Towns.
4. Healing the Sick Poor: Social Policy and Disability in Norwich
1550-1640.
PART TWO AGE GROUPS AND GENDER
5. Child Health as a Social Value in Early Modern England.
6. Old Age, Poverty and Disability in Early Modern Norwich: Work,
Remarriage and Other Expedients.
7. Older Women: Household, Caring and Other Occupations in the Late
Sixteenth-century Town.
PART THREE OCCUPATIONS
8. Nurses and Nursekeepers: Problems of Identification in the Early Modern
Period.
9. Occupational Diversity: Barber-surgeons and other Trades 1550-1640.
10. Trade or Profession? Medical Practice in Early Modern England.