Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe

by Mary Lindemann

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"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 show more 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. show less

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a decent primer w a good bibliography, and a workable index for reference. but the author's specific coverage of topics like neoplatonism and foucaultian historiography was frustratingly biased and shallow.

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Mary Lindemann is Professor of History at the University of Miami. Her publications include HenIth and Healing in Eighttmth-Century Germany (1996),which was awarded the 1998 William Welch Book Medal Prize by the American Association for the History of Medicine.

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Canonical title: Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe
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Genres: Nonfiction, History, Anthropology, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 306.4 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Culture and institutions Specific aspects of culture
LCC: RA418.3 .E85 .L55 — Medicine Public aspects of medicine Public aspects of medicine Medicine and the state Medicine and society. Social medicine. Medical sociology
BISAC: HIS HISTORY Europe General

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