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Zusammenfassung The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was like in pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Roy Porter; 2. Murders and miracles: lay attitudes towards medicine in classical antiquity Vivian Nutton; 3. Puritan perceptions of illness in seventeenth century England Andrew Wear; 4. In sickness and in health: a seventeenth century family's experience Lucinda McCray Beier; 5. Participant or patient? seventeenth century childbirth from the mother's point of view Adrian Wilson; 6. Piety and the patient: medicine and religion in eighteenth century Bristol Jonathan Barry; 7. Cultural habits of illness: the Enlightened and the Pious in eighteenth century Germany Johanna Geyer-Kordesch; 8. 'The doctor scolds me': the diaries and correspondence of patients in eighteenth century England Joan Lane; 9. Prescribing the rules of health: self-help and advice in the late eighteenth century Ginnie Smith; 10. Laymen, doctors and medical knowledge in the eighteenth century: the evidence of the Gentleman's Magazine Roy Porter; 11. The colonisation of traditional Arabic medicine Ghada Karmi; Index.
