Medicine and society in early modern Europe / Mary Lindemann.
Medicine and society in early modern Europe / Mary Lindemann.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N306.461/34
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 249 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Sickness and health -- 2. Epidemics and infectious diseases -- 3. Learned medicine -- 4. Medical education -- 5. Hospitals and asylums -- 6. Health and society -- 7. Practice.
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1999.
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"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 mu...
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Medicine and society in early modern Europe / Mary Lindemann.
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New Approaches to European history.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N306.461/34
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74VvGzWW7pmZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvGzWW7pmZ
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0521412544(cased) :
9780521423540(pbk.) :
0521423546(pbk.) :
9780521412544 (hbk.)
0521412544 (hbk.)
9780521423540 (pbk.)
0521423546 (pbk.)
9780521412544(cased) :
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306.461094
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991012587269702626
