[PDF] Health Disease And Society In Europe 1500 1800 eBook

Author : Peter Elmer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 13,19 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 : Peter Elmer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719067341

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"The book will appeal to students, teachers, health workers and general readers who wish to develop a critical awareness of medicine in the past. The essays are complemented by a selection of primary and secondary readings in the companion volume, Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1800: A Source Book."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Deborah Brunton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 2004-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719067358

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An accessible introduction to the social history of medicine in Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, set within its political, cultural, intellectual and economic contexts

Author : Deborah Brunton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2004-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719067396

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Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930 provides readers with unrivaled access to a comprehensive range of sources on major themes in nineteenth and early twentieth-century medicine. The book covers issues such as the changing role of the hospital, disease, colonial and imperial medicine, women, war, the emergence of modern surgery, welfare and the state, and the growth of asylum. Extracts from contemporary writings vividly illustrate key aspects of medical thought and practice, while a selection of classic historical research and up-to-date work in the field gives a sense of our understanding of medical history. Introductions make the sources accessible to the student as well as the interested general reader.

Author : Mary Lindemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 19,87 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 : Elaine Yuen Tien Leong
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780754668541

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Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical, alchemical, natural philosophical and commercial knowledge in early modern Europe. This volume brings together international scholars from a variety of fields to offer insights and new interpretations into the role played by secrets in their area of specialization.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521557917

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In his short but authoritative study, Roy Porter examines the impact of disease upon the English and their responses to it before the widespread availability and public provision of medical care. Professor Porter incorporates into the revised second edition new perspectives offered by recent research into provincial medical history, the history of childbirth, and women's studies in the social history of medicine. He begins by sketching a picture of the threats posed by disease to population levels and social continuity from Tudor times to the Industrial Revolution, going on to consider the nature and development of the medical profession, attitudes to doctors and disease, and the growing commitment of the state to public health. Drawing together a wide range of often fragmentary material, and providing a detailed annotated bibliography, this book is an important guide to the history of medicine and to English social history.

Author : Keir Waddington
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1403946930

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"An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine is a one-volume, detailed survey of the major debates and themes in the history of western medicine, from the early modern period to the present. Combining specialized knowledge with new ways of thinking about the subject, this lucidly written, illustrated text brings together the latest research with a fresh approach to the history of medicine and explores traditional views and questions existing orthodoxies. Features: Surveys the major topics and themes in the history of medicine - Assesses current historiography - Covers the experience of sickness, as well as its treatment - Provides chronologies and guides to further reading to aid further study. This accessible but challenging new textbook is the essential introduction to the history of medicine"--Provided by publisher.

Author : George Rosen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 2015-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1421416018

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For seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading.