Health, Disease, and Society in Europe, 1500-1800: A Source BookPeter Elmer, Ole Peter Grell Manchester University Press, published, 2004 - 380 Seiten The period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment constitutes a vital phase in the history of European medicine. Elements of continuity with the classical and medieval past are evident in the persistence of a humoural-based view of the body and of illness. As the same time new theories of the body emerged to challenge established ideas in medical circles. In recent years, scholars have explored this terrain with increasingly fascinating results, often revising our previous understanding of issues relating to the way in which early modern Europeans discussed the body, health and disease. In order to understand these and related processes, historians are increasingly aware of the way in which every aspect of medical care and provision in early modern Europe was shaped by the social, religious, political and cultural concerns of the age. up-to-date research in the field as well as extracts from contemporary sources, providing vivid and detailed accounts of some of the key aspects of medical thought and practice in the period. These are arranged by themes and so complement the companion volume of esssays in The Healing Arts: Health, Disease ad Society in Europe, 1500-1800. They are also accompanied by brief, scholarly introductions to ensure that they are readily accessible to both the specialist and general reader. |
Inhalt
the classical | 1 |
Part two The sick body and its healers 15001700 | 30 |
Vesalius medical humanism | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
15 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1800: A Sourcebook Peter Elmer,Ole Peter Grell Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2004 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
according anatomy appear barber-surgeons became become blood body called cause century claimed clients common concerned continued course cure death demonstration disease doctors early early modern effects eighteenth England especially established Europe evidence example experience extract flux French Galen give given hand hospital human important infection Italy knowledge known later learned least less living London matter means medicine mental midwife nature never observations original pain Paracelsus Paris patients period person physicians placenta plague poor popular practice practitioners present Press published reason Reformation remedies role sick social society suffered surgeons surgery taken teaching theory things thought tion treated treatment University Vesalius whole women writings