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Maladies and Medicine: Exploring Health and Healing, 1540 -... by Jennifer Evans
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- Maladies and Medicine: Exploring Health and Healing, 1540 - 1740
- Book Title
- Maladies and Medicine: Exploring Health and Healing, 1540 - 1740
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- 1473875714
- EAN
- 9781473875715
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- Paperback / softback
- Date of Publication
- 20170704
- Release Title
- Maladies and Medicine: Exploring Health and Healing, 1540 - 1740
- Artist
- Jennifer Evans
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- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Maladies and Medicine: Exploring Health and Healing, 1540-1740
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books LTD
- Item Width
- 156mm
- Subject
- Medicine, History
- Number of Pages
- 182 Pages
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Maladies and Medicine offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. The introduction sets out the background in which the body was understood, covering the theory of the four humours and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualised. It also explains the hierarchy of healers from university trained physicians, to the itinerant women healers who travelled the country offering cures based on inherited knowledge of homemade remedies. It covers the print explosion of medical health guides, which began to appear in the sixteenth century from more academic medical text books to cheap almanacs. The book has twenty chapters covering attitudes towards, and explanations of some of, the most common diseases and medical conditions in the period and the ways people understood them, along with the steps people took to get better. It explores the body from head to toe, from migraines to gout. It was an era when tooth cavities were thought to be caused by tiny worms and smallpox by an inflammation of the blood, and cures ranged from herbal potions, cooling cordials, blistering the skin, and of course letting blood.Case studies and personal anecdotes taken from doctors notes, personal journals, diaries, letters and even court records show the reactions of individuals to their illnesses and treatments, bringing the reader into close proximity with people who lived around 400 years ago. This fascinating and richly illustrated study will appeal to anyone curious about the history of the body and the way our ancestors lived. AUTHORS: Jennifer Evans is a senior lecturer in History at the University of Hertfordshire. Her academic research is focused on the body, medicine and gender and covers the period 1550-1750. To date her research has examined the understanding of infertility and its treatments in early modern England. Sara Read lectures in English at Loughborough University. Her academic research has been focussed on the female body and reproduction in early modernity. She brought out Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Womens Lives 1540-1740 with Pen & Sword in 2015. 30 illustrations
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Maladies and Medicine: Exploring Health and Healing, 1540-1740
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Paperback
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English
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Medicine, History
Publication Year
2017
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Textbook
Number of Pages
182 Pages
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234mm
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156mm
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