Publication

1999-11-13 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

65,750 words, Guess

Page Count

263 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number99017819
  • LibraryThing2456215

Classifications

  • LCCRA418.3.E85 L55 1999

Description

"Bringing together the best and most innovative recent research, 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."--Jacket.

First Sentence

Of each 1,000 people born, 24 die during birth itself; the business of teething disposes of another 50; in the first two years, convulsions and other illness remove another 277; smallpox... carries off another 80 or 90, and measles 10 more.

Subjects

Topics

EuropeHistoryMedicine2000 e-119Health CareAnthropologyMedical care

Other Editions

  • Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History)HardcoverCambridge University Press1999-11-13

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