Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780521412544
Subjects: Anthropology; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Medical care; Health Care; Sociology Of Medicine; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Medicine; Europe - General; History / Europe / General; Social medicine--Europe--History; History; Social medicine
First sentence: Of each 1,000 people born, 24 die during birth itself; the business of teething disposes of another 50; in the first two years, convulsions and other illness remove another 277; smallpox... carries off another 80 or 90, and measles 10 more.
Description: "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.