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Informationen zum Autor Joseph P. Byrne , is professor of honors humanities at Belmont University in Nashville, TN, USA. Klappentext Examining a 300-year period that encompasses the Scientific Revolution, this engrossing book offers a fresh and clearly organized discussion of the human experience of health, medicine, and health care, from the Age of Discovery to the era of the French Revolution. Health and Wellness in the Renaissance and Enlightenment compares and contrasts health care practices of various cultures from around the world during the vital period from 1500 to 1800. These years, which include the Age of Discovery and the Scientific Revolution, were a period of rapid advance of both science and medicine. New drugs were developed and new practices, some of which stemmed from increasingly frequent contact between various cultures, were initiated.Examining the medical systems of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the colonial world, this comprehensive study covers a wide array of topics including education and training of medical professionals and the interaction of faith, religion, and medicine. The book looks specifically at issues related to women's health and the health of infants and children, at infectious diseases and occupational and environmental hazards, and at brain and mental disorders. Chapters also focus on advances in surgery, dentistry, and orthopedics, and on the apothecary and his pharmacopoeia. Zusammenfassung Examining a 300-year period that encompasses the Scientific Revolution! this engrossing book offers a fresh and clearly organized discussion of the human experience of health! medicine! and health care! from the Age of Discovery to the era of the French Revolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Foreword 1. Factors in Early Modern Health and Medicine Factors in Individual Health and Well-Being The Early Modern World Societal Factors in Health and Medicine 2. Education and Training: Learned and Nonlearned Western Traditions Early Modern Mexicans African Slaves in the Caribbean The Chinese 3. Religion and Medicine The Expanding Christian World Africans at Home and Enslaved Religion and Medicine among the Aztecs Ming and Qing China 4. Women's Health and Medicine The Aztecs Caribbean Slaves The Chinese The Europeans 5. Infants and Children They Are Born: Neonatal and Infant Health Hazards to Older Children's Health and Lives European Institutions of Child Care 6. Infectious Diseases Background The Continuing Saga: Fleas, Rats, and Plague Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Yellow Fever Filth and Parasites: Typhus and Dysentery When the Air Is Deadly: Smallpox, Influenza, and Measles Waterborne Diseases: Cholera and Typhoid Fever When Sex Needed Drugs: Syphilis and Other Venereal Diseases 7. Environmental and Occupational Hazards Environmental Hazards Occupational Hazards 8. Surgeons and Surgery The Aztecs The Chinese The Islamic World The Europeans 9. Mental and Emotional Health and Disorders The Aztecs Caribbean Slaves The Chinese The Turks and Persians The Europeans 10. Apothecaries and Their Pharmacopeias Types of Materia Medica Early Modern Dispensers of Medicinal Materials and Their Sources The Worldwide Pharmacopeia 11. War, Health, and Medicine The Aztec Way of War Europeans at War Care for the Wounded and Veterans War within the House of Islam 12. Medical Institutions The Chinese The Islamic World The Europeans European Institutions Abroad 13. Healing and the Arts The Visual Arts Doctors in Dramas and Novels Medicine in Poetry Glossary Bibliography Index ...
