Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe

Andrew Cunningham

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• The Enlightenment period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789, is usually considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give w... Lees meer

The Return of Epidemics

Marcos Cueto

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Historians have long recognized epidemics to be a significant, though sometimes hidden, factor in the fortunes of societies and civilizations. The stu... Lees meer

The Body Divided

Sally Wilde

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have... Lees meer

Nursing before Nightingale, 1815-1899

Carol Helmstadter, Judith Godden

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Nursing Before Nightingale is a study of the transformation of nursing in England from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the emergence of ... Lees meer

'Regimental Practice' by John Buchanan, M.D.

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• In 1746, Dr John Buchanan, recently retired as a medical officer in the British Army, produced a manuscript entitled, 'Regimental Practice, or a Short... Lees meer

Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe

Michael Stolberg

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the urine - played a very prominent role in early modern medical practice and in the live... Lees meer

Henri de Rothschild, 1872-1947

Harry W Paul

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Dr Henri de Rothschild was a fifth generation Rothschild and perhaps the most famous of the Paris Rothschilds of the fin-de-siècle period. A 'sleeping... Lees meer

Melancholy and the Care of the Soul

Jeremy Schmidt

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Melancholy is rightly taken to be a central topic of concern in early modern culture, and it continues to generate scholarly interest among historians... Lees meer

It All Depends on the Dose

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their inte... Lees meer

The Anatomist Anatomis'd

Andrew Cunningham

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks at the investigation of anatomy i... Lees meer

Healing, Performance and Ceremony in the Writings of Three Early Modern Physicians

M A Katritzky

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• While the writings of early modern medical practitioners habitually touch on performance and ceremony, few illuminate them as clearly as the Protestan... Lees meer

The World of Worm

Ole Peter Grell

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University ... Lees meer

With Words and Knives

Lynda Payne

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• The practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience. Many procedures, especiall... Lees meer

The Body Divided

Sally Wilde

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have... Lees meer

Bad Vibrations

James Kennaway

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physic... Lees meer

A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier

Elizabeth A Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe. It is... Lees meer

Before My Helpless Sight

Leo Van Bergen

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Despite the numerous vicious conflicts that scarred the twentieth century, the horrors of the Western Front continue to exercise a particularly strong... Lees meer

Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe

Andrew Cunningham

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• The Enlightenment period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789, is usually considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give w... Lees meer

Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy

Jennifer F Kosmin

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy: Contested Deliveries explores attempts by church, state, and medical authorities to regulate a... Lees meer

Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Angela Montford

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• Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries explores the attitudes and responses of the mendicant orders to i... Lees meer

Female Patients in Early Modern Britain

Wendy D Churchill

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• This investigation contributes to the existing scholarship on women and medicine in early modern Britain by examining the diagnosis and treatment of f... Lees meer

The Political and Social Dynamics of Poverty, Poor Relief and Health Care in Early-Modern Portugal

Laurinda Abreu

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• By the end of the fifteenth century most European counties had witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health care policies. As this... Lees meer

The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence

Helen King

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• By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book pu... Lees meer

Wounds in the Middle Ages

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Wounds were a potent signifier reaching across all aspects of life in Europe in the middle ages, and their representation, perception and treatment is... Lees meer