Title: Medicine and society in early modern Europe /
Authors: Lindemann, Mary.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Social Medicine; Public Health; History, Early Modern 1451-1600; Social medicine Europe History.; Medicine Europe History; Medical care Europe History.; Public health Europe History.; Europe; Europe
Abstract: "Bringing together the best and most innovative recent research, 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 of medical science, doctors and hospitals."--Jacket.
Contents: Sickness and health -- Epidemics and infectious diseases -- Learned medicine -- Medical education -- Hospitals and asylums -- Health and society -- Practice.