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Zusatztext valuable and unusual insights into the experience of disease, pain, suffering and death of children in early modern England ... [the judging panel] liked the extraordinary and unusual approach to combine the social history of childhood, history of medicine and history of emotions ... particularly impressed by the way Hannah Newton combined scholarly rigor with empathy by giving a voice to children, mothers and fathers, and physicians. At the same time she contextualizes these personal accounts within a masterly presentation of the complex medical knowledge of the period. Her outstanding book has been reviewed enthusiastically in different scholarly journals. And after reading it, the jury could only agree with these reviews, and is very happy to award the prize to Hannah Newton. Informationen zum Autor Dr Hannah Newton is a social historian of early modern England, specialising in the history of medicine, childhood, and the emotions. She undertook her PhD at the University of Exeter in 2006-2009 on the subject of 'The Sick Child in Early Modern England'. Dr Newton is now based in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, as a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow. Her postdoctoral project is about recovery and convalescence from illness in the early modern period. Klappentext Illness in childhood was common in early modern England. Hannah Newton asks how sick children were perceived and treated by doctors and laypeople, examines the family's experience, and takes the original perspective of sick children themselves. She provides rare and intimate insights into the experiences of sickness, pain, and death. What makes Newton's achievement impressive is the skill and determination with which she has investigated a huge range of medical literature to establish her case that children were seen, distinctively, as 'soft and weak, abounding in the humour blood'. ... This is a highly promising debut. Anthony Fletcher, History The Sick Child is a major contribution to the histories of childhood, the family, parentchild relationships, religion and medical care. Hannah Newton writes with impressive clarity and sensitivity, forging a powerful argument that children were recognised in medical treatises as distinct from adults. Joanne Bailey, Women's History Review Zusammenfassung Illness in childhood was common in early modern England. Hannah Newton asks how sick children were perceived and treated by doctors and laypeople, examines the family's experience, and takes the original perspective of sick children themselves. She provides rare and intimate insights into the experiences of sickness, pain, and death. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Medical Perceptions and Treatments 1: Humid Humours: Children's Bodies and Diseases 2: 'Cur'd in a Different Manner': Children's Physic Part II: The Family's Perspective 3: 'With Great Care and Pains': Tending the Sick Child 4: 'Wrackt Betwixt Hopes and Fears': Parents' Emotions Part III: The Child's Experience 5: 'Very Much Eased': Being a Patient 6: 'Ill in My Body, But Well in God': Suffering Sickness Conclusion Bibliography ...
