The Healing Arts: Health, Disease and Society in Europe 1500-1800Peter Elmer Manchester University Press, 2004 M03 9 - 408 páginas The period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment constitutes a vital phase in the history of European medicine. Elements of continuity with the classical and medieval past are evident in the persistence of a humor-based view of the body and of illness. At the same time new theories of the body emerged to challenge established ideas in medical circles. In recent years, scholars have explored this terrain with increasingly fascinating results, often revising our previous understanding of issues relating to the way in which early modern Europeans discussed the body, health and disease. In order to understand these and related processes, historians are increasingly aware of the way in which every aspect of medical care and provision in early modern Europe was shaped by the social, religious, political and cultural concerns of the age. |
Contenido
Medicine in western Europe in 1500 | 1 |
The sick and their healers | 27 |
Vesalius | 58 |
2 | 85 |
4 | 91 |
6 | 99 |
8 | 105 |
4 | 125 |
7 | 187 |
Women and medicine | 196 |
The care and cure of mental illness | 228 |
War medicine and the military revolution | 257 |
Environment health and population | 284 |
Medicine and health in the age of European colonialism | 315 |
Organization training and the medical marketplace in | 344 |
Glossary | 382 |
Términos y frases comunes
Ambroise Paré anatomy ancient apothecaries argued arteries authority azygos vein barber-surgeons became believed blood bloodletting Brockliss Cambridge University Press Cardano Catholic caused Chapter Christian church College of Physicians contemporary Counter-Reformation cultural cure disease dissection doctors drugs early modern Europe Early Modern France early modern period eighteenth century England epidemics established European example Exercise Discussion female Figure Fioravanti France Galen Greek guilds healers healing Helmontian Hippocrates historians hospitals human body humours ideas important increasingly inoculation learned medicine learned physicians Leonardo Fioravanti licensed London madness medical faculty medical knowledge medical practice medical practitioners medical theories medieval mental illness midwives Napier's natural philosophy nature organization Paracelsianism Paracelsus Paré Paris particular patients philosophy physicians plague political poor popular Porter Reading Reformation religious remedies Renaissance role Rome seventeenth century sick sixteenth century slaves smallpox social society soul Source Book surgeons surgery traditional treatment understanding veins Vesalius Wellcome Library women