Health, disease and society in Europe, 15001800

A source book

Edited by Peter Elmer, Ole Peter Grell

Publication date:

25 December 2003

Length of book:

400 pages

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Dimensions:

234x156mm

ISBN-13: 9780719067372

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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.

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