Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine
Subtitle: Mediating Medicine in Early Modern and Modern Europe
Contributors: Cornelie Usborne (Editor); Willem De Blecourt (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 3, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403915696
Subjects: History of medicine; Social history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History: World; Health - General; History - General History; Europe; Medical care; Europe - General; History / Europe / General; History; Medicine; Social medicine
First sentence: To comprehend how health, illness and healing were understood in the past the historian has to enquire into the variety of the meanings attached to these terms.