[PDF] Health And Healing In Early Modern England eBook

Author : Andrew Wear
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :

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A collection of 11 essays published between 1981 and 1996 reflecting the shift of emphasis by historians of medicine from the triumph of the existing medical industry to the place of health in society as a whole and in various subpopulations. Among the topics are Galen in the Renaissance, William Harvey and the Way of the Anatomists, Religious beliefs and medicine in early modern England, puritan perceptions of illness in 17th-century England, medical ethics during the period, caring for the sick poor in St. Bartholomew Exchange 1580-1676, the popularization of medicine, and epistemology and learned medicine. The essays are reproduced from their original publication in a variety of type styles. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Andrew Wear
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1040250807

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The opening studies in this volume, on the revival of Galenic medicine in Continental Europe, provide the context for its focus - England in the 17th century. The author covers the discovery of the circulation of the blood, but it is the underlying components of health and medicine that form the subjects of this book. It deals, notably, with the strong link then perceived between health and the environment, perhaps even more present in people’s minds than today, with the relationship between medicine and religion, and with medical ethics. Further studies discuss the provision made for the sick poor, the popularisation of medicine, and the epistemological basis of learned or university based medicine. A theme throughout is the range of treatments available in the ’medical marketplace’ of the 17th century, from wise women to learned physicians.

Author : L. Whaley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0230295177

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Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.

Author : Mary Lindemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521425921

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A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.

Author : Elizabeth Lane Furdell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9004146636

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This collection of twelve essays explores various aspects in the development of medicine from the Middle Ages to 1700 with a particular emphasis on revisiting original texts for new insights in the culture of healing.

Author : Margaret E. Boyle
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1487505183

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This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and experiences are tied to gender.

Author : Peter Elmer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719067372

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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 ongoing importance of a humor-based view of medicine and the treatment of illness. At the same time, new theories of the body emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 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 the ways 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.

Author : Hannah Newton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 019877902X

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Misery to Mirth aims to change our thinking about health in early modern England. Drawing on sources such as diaries and medical texts, it shows that recovery did exist as a concept, and that it was a widely-reported event. The study examines how patients, and their loved ones, dealt with overcoming a seemingly fatal illness.--

Author : Elaine Leong
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 022658366X

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Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by teams of householders, including masters and servants, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons. This much-sought know-how was written into notebooks of various shapes and sizes forming “treasuries for health,” each personalized to suit the whims and needs of individual communities. In Recipes and Everyday Knowledge, Elaine Leong situates recipe knowledge and practices among larger questions of gender and cultural history, the history of the printed word, and the history of science, medicine, and technology. The production of recipes and recipe books, she argues, were at the heart of quotidian investigations of the natural world or “household science”. She shows how English homes acted as vibrant spaces for knowledge making and transmission, and explores how recipe trials allowed householders to gain deeper understandings of sickness and health, of the human body, and of natural and human-built processes. By recovering this story, Leong extends the parameters of natural inquiry and productively widens the cast of historical characters participating in and contributing to early modern science.

Author : Jennifer C. Vaught
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 34,8 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780754669487

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Contributors analyze works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton among others to track the development of sustained, nuanced rhetorics of bodily disease and health -- physical, emotional, and spiritual. Focusing on literary genres (epic, lyric, satire, drama, sermon) and cultural history artifacts, the volume examines the extent to which rhetorical figures of sickness and health inform literature, religion, science, and medicine in medieval and early modern England and Europe.