Title: The task of healing :
Authors: Marland, Hilary.; Pelling, Margaret
Date: 1996
Publisher: Erasmus Pub.,
Physical description: 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: R
Contents: Hoping against hope? : a marital dispute about the medical treatment of leprosy in the fifteenth-century Hanseatic town of Kampen / Fred Bergman -- Book ownership and the lay culture of medicine in Tudor Cambridge / Peter Murray Jones -- Civic roles and academic definitions : the changing relationship between surgeons and urban government in Groningen, 1550-1800 / Frank Huisman -- Compromised by gender : the role of the male medical practicioner in early modern England / Margaret Pelling -- Religion and medical practice in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century : an introduction / Mart van Lieburg -- Religious beliefs and medicine in early modern England / Andrew Wear -- Chasing demons and curing mortals : the medical practice of clerics in the Netherlands / Hans de Waardt -- Medical education and early modern Dutch medical practitioners : towards a critical approach / Willem Friijhoff -- The body's extremities : feet, gender, and the iconography of healing in seventeenth-century sources / Margaret Pelling -- Natural history and seventeenth-century Dutch and English medicine / Harold J. Cook -- 'Stately and dignified, kindly and God-fearing' : midwives, age and status in the Netherlands in the eighteenth century / Hilary Marland.
Subject headings (LCSH): Healing--Religious aspects; Medical care--England--History.; Medical care--Netherlands--History.; Medicine--England--Religious aspects--History.; Medicine--Netherlands--Religious aspects--History.; Medicine--Religious aspects--History.; Sex role--England--History.; Sex role--Netherlands--History.; Social medicine--England--History.; Social medicine--Netherlands--History.