Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521425926)

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing together the best recent research in the field, 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. This second edition has been updated and revised throughout in content, style, and interpretations and new material has been added, in particular, on colonialism, exploration, and women. Accessibly written and full of fascinating insights, this will be essential reading for all students of the history of medicine and will provide invaluable context for students of early modern Europe more generally.

Author: Mary Lindemann
ISBN-10: 0521425921
ISBN-13: 9780521425926
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2010
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2011