The Renaissance Hospital
Subtitle: Healing the Body and Healing the Soul
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: November 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780300109955
Subjects: Architecture; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Health systems & services; History of medicine; Medical; History - General History; Europe; Renaissance; History / Renaissance; History; 16th century; 17th century; Florence; Hospitals; Italy; To 1500
Description: John Henderson takes us into the Renaissance hospitals of Florence, recreating the enormous barn-like wards and exploring the lives of those who received and those who administered treatment there.