{"product_id":"health-healing-in-eighteenth-century-mary-lindemann-9780801867859","title":"Health \u0026 Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough the physicians and surgeons of eighteenth-century Germany have attracted previous scholarly inquiry, little is known about their day-to-day activities--and even less about the ways in which those activities fit into the economic, political, and social structures of the time. In this groundbreaking work, Mary Lindemann brings together the scholarly traditions of the history of structures, mentalities, and everyday life to shed light on this complex relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpening with a discussion of the interplay of state and society in the independent German state of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Lindemann explains how medical policy was \"made\" at all levels. She describes the striking array of healers active in the eighteenth century: from physicians to all those consulted in medical situations--friends and neighbors, executioners and barber-surgeons, bathmasters, midwives, and apothecaries. She surveys the available vital statistics and more personal narrative accounts, such as reports on the \"Increase and Decrease of the Inhabitants,\" and medical topographies. Lindemann also examines the process of becoming a patient and explores the effects of the social, economic, political, and cultural milieus on how medicine was practiced in the everyday world of the village, the neighborhood, and the town.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Lindemann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801867851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801867859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/19\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.88h x 6.42w x 1.33d","brand":"Mary Lindemann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448951845119,"sku":"9780801867859","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_74635105-1b3c-40db-b918-f89f407524ec.jpg?v=1777261319","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/health-healing-in-eighteenth-century-mary-lindemann-9780801867859","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}