Medicine and Society in Early Modern EuropeMedicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, in the highly successful series of New Approaches, offers undergraduate students a concise introduction to a subject rich in historical excitement and interest. Mary Lindemann, a distinguished scholar of the history of medicine, writes with exceptional clarity and examines medicine from a social and cultural perspective rather than a narrowly scientific one. She focuse s on the experience of illness and on patients and folk healers as much as on the rise of medical science, doctors and hospitals. |
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A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a patient | 19 |
Epidemics and infectious diseases | 37 |
Learned medicine | 66 |
Medical education | 92 |
Hospitals and asylums | 120 |
Health and society | 155 |
Practice | 193 |
Conclusion | 231 |
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Disease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Day Mark Harrison Não há visualização disponível - 2004 |
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| Título | Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, Mary Lindemann Volume 16 de New Approaches to European History, ISSN 1362-6310 |
| Autor | Mary Lindemann |
| Colaboradores | William Beik, T. C. W. Blanning, Brendan Simms |
| Edição | ilustrada |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0521423546, 9780521423540 |
| Num. págs. | 249 páginas |
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