A cultural history of medicine in the Middle Ages / edited by Iona McCleery.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• McCleery, Iona, editor.

Series:

• Cultural histories series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Medicine--History--15th century.
• Medicine--History--16th century.
• Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

System Details:

• text file
• HTML

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474206716

OCLC:

1273126047

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.