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A cultural history of medicine in the Middle Ages
Title
A cultural history of medicine in the Middle Ages / edited by Iona McCleery.
ISBN
9781472569929
9781474206716
Edition
First edition
Publication
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"How has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years? A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from ancient times to modernity, discusses this. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years of human history, this is the definitive reference work on the subject. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one volume, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover: 1. - Antiquity (500BCE - 800 CE); 2. - Middle Ages (800 - 1450); 3. - Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. - Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. - Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. - Modern Age (1920 - 2000+). Themes (and chapter titles) are: Environment; Food; Disease; Animals; Objects; Experiences; the Mind; Authority"--Abstract.
Variant and related titles
Bloomsbury cultural history. 2021-2024 bespoke series collection.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 12, 2024
Series
Cultural histories series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Environment: Managing Urban Sanitation for Sanitas, Dolly Jørgensen
2. Food: From Healthy Regimen to Consumption and Supply?, Iona McCleery3. Disease: Confronting, Consoling, and Constructing the Afflicted Body, Justin Stearns
4. Animals: Their Use and Meaning in Medieval Medicine, Kathleen Walker-Meikle
5. Objects: The Archaeology of Medieval Healing, Gemma L. Watson and Roberta Gilchrist
6. Experiences: Feeling Unhealthy in the Middle Ages, Naama Cohen-Hanegbi
7. Mind/Brain: Medieval Concepts, Wendy J. Turner
8. Authority: Trusting the Text in the Early Middle Ages, F. Eliza Glaze.
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