Health, disease, and society in Europe, 1500-1800 : a source book / edited by Peter Elmer and Ole Peter Grell.

Other author Elmer, Peter.
Other author Grell, Ole Peter.
Format Book
Publication InfoManchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, published in association with the Open University, 2004.
Descriptionxx, 380 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Medicine--Europe. --History.
Medical policy--Europe. --History.
Social medicine--Europe. --History.
History, Modern 1601---Europe.
Delivery of Health Care--history. --Europe.
History, 16th Century--Europe.
Social Conditions--history. --Europe.

Contents Medical practice and theory: the classical and medieval heritage -- Galen's approach to health and disease: The Art of Medicine -- A medieval consilium: Ugo Benzi (1376-1439) -- The history of surgery: Guy de Chauliac (1298-1368) -- The Hippocratic oath -- Reactions to the 'French Disease' at the papal court -- The sick body and its healers, 1500-1700 -- Medicine: trade or profession? -- Women practitioners: the prescriptions of Lady Grace Mildmay -- The place of women in learned medicine: James Primrose's Popular Errours (1651) -- Lay and learned medicine in early modern England -- Physical appearance and the role of the barber surgeon in early modern London -- Renaissance critiques of medicine: Pico and Agrippa -- Cardano's description of the death of a patient -- The medical renaissance of the sixteenth century: Vesalius, medical humanism and bloodletting -- Leoniceno and medical humanism at Ferrara -- Bloodletting in Renaissance medicine -- Attending a public dissection by Vesalius, Bologna, 1540 -- Vesalius and the anatomical renaissance -- Vesalius, On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543) -- Fabricius and the 'Aristotle Project' -- Medicine and religion in sixteenth-century Europe -- Luther and medicine -- The church, the devil and living saints: the example of Maria Manca -- Paracelsus on the medical benefits of travel -- The religion of Paracelsus -- The Christian physician in time of plague: Johan Ewich -- Protestantism, poor relief and health care in sixteenth-century Europe.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Health, disease, and society in Europe, 1500-1800. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, published in association with the Open University, 2004
LCCN 2004351456
ISBN0719067367 (hardback)
ISBN9780719067365 (hardback)
ISBN0719067375 (pbk.)
ISBN9780719067372 (pbk.)

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Laupus Books - Stacks WZ 70 GA1 H4342 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold