Medicine and society in early modern Europe

By Mary Lindemann

Subjects: History, 18th century, Medicine, history, Medical care--europe--history, History, 16th Century, Social medicine--europe--history, History, 16th century, History of Medicine, Medical care, Public health--europe--history, History of medicine, Social Medicine, Social medicine--history, Medicine and the humanities, Medicine--history, Public Health, 306.4/61094, Wz 70 ga1 l743m 2010, Medicine--europe--history, Social medicine, Public health, Public health--history, History, Medicine, europe, History, 17th century, History, 18th Century, Medicine, Ra418.3.e85 l55 2010, History, 17th Century, Medical care--history

Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.