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Informationen zum Autor Peter Elmer is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Ole Peter Grell is Professor of History at the Open University Klappentext Health, disease and society in Europe 1500-1800 considers how the body was viewed by the medical profession from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and challenges established ideas in the field of medical history. It examines the provision of medical care in context and how it was shaped by the social, religious, political and cultural concerns of the age. Arranged thematically and with accessible but scholarly introductions, the selection of documents includes contemporary sources, recent research in the field and classical writings. Zusammenfassung The period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment constitutes a vital phase in the history of European medicine. This volume contains a selection of classical writing and up-to-date research in the field! and extracts from contemporary sources. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Medical practice and theory: The classical and medieval heritage2. The sick body and its healers, 1500-17003. The medical renaissance of the sixteenth century: Vesalius, medical humanism and bloodletting4. Medicine and religion in sixteenth-century Europe5. Chemical medicine and the challenge to Galenism: The legacy of Paracelsus6. Charity, the state and public health in early modern Europe7. New models of the body, 1600-18008. Women and medicine in early modern Europe9. The care and cure of the insane in early modern Europe10. War and medicine in early modern Europe11. Environment, health and population, 1500-180012. European medicine in the age of colonialism13. Medical organisation, training and the medical marketplace in eighteenth-century EuropeIndex
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Medical practice and theory: The classical and medieval heritage
2. The sick body and its healers, 1500-1700
3. The medical renaissance of the sixteenth century: Vesalius, medical humanism and bloodletting
4. Medicine and religion in sixteenth-century Europe
5. Chemical medicine and the challenge to Galenism: The legacy of Paracelsus
6. Charity, the state and public health in early modern Europe
7. New models of the body, 1600-1800
8. Women and medicine in early modern Europe
9. The care and cure of the insane in early modern Europe
10. War and medicine in early modern Europe
11. Environment, health and population, 1500-1800
12. European medicine in the age of colonialism
13. Medical organisation, training and the medical marketplace in eighteenth-century Europe
Index
About the author
Peter Elmer is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Ole Peter Grell is Professor of History at the Open University
