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EXPERIENCING ILLNESS AND THE SICK BODY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
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| By: |
Michael Stolberg |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£66.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230355846 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230355842 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
11 November, 2011 |
| Description: |
Based on thousands of letters written by patients and their relatives and on a wide range of other sources, this book provides the first comprehensive account of how early modern people understood, experienced and dealt with common diseases and how they dealt with them on a day-to-day basis. |
| Synopsis: |
Illness was ubiquitous in early modern society. Health was constantly threatened and medicine often proved powerless. Based on his analysis of contemporary autobiographical writing, of thousands of letters which the sick and their relatives sent to physicians of the time and of a wide range of other sources, Michael Stolberg describes how early modern people coped with pain and disease, how they interacted with physicians and other healers and how they tried to make sense of their suffering. He presents the ideas and imagesthat peopleassociated with commonly diagnosed diseases such as phthisis, gout, cancer, dropsy or fever. The first thorough and comprehensive overview of the early modern experience and lay interpretation of illness, Stolberg also traces the impact of new medical theories on ordinary people's medical views. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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