Medicine and the body in early modern Europe / Michael Stolberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stolberg, Michael, 1957- author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost

Series:

Palgrave studies in medieval and early modern medicine 2524-7395

Palgrave studies in medieval and early modern medicine, 2524-7395

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects--Europe--History--16th century.

Human body.

Human body--Social aspects--Europe--History--17th century.

Medicine--Europe--History--16th century.

Medicine.

Medicine--Europe--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2025]

Contents:

1. From 'Step Years' to 'Menopause': The Changing Notion of the 'Climacteric'

2. "Wrath, Women and Wine, Throw Our Bodies to the Swine": Affects and Illness in the Early Modern Period

3. Lukas Cranach's Representations of Melancholia, and the Medicine of His Time

4. "My Aesculapian Oracle!": Patient Letters as a Source of a Cultural History of Illness Experience in the Eighteenth Century

5. Cura Palliativa: The Idea and Practice of Palliative Treatment in Pre-Modern Medicine, ca. 1500-1850

6. Forms and Strategies of Authorization in Early Modern Medicine

7. Between Identity-Formation and Self-Staging: Medical Self-Fashioning in the Early Modern Period

8. Forms and Functions of Medical Case Reports in the Early Modern Period, 1500-1800

9. Casuistic Medical Training in the Sixteenth Century: The Paduan Collegia

10. The Concept of Innate Heat in Avicenna's Canon Medicinae

11. In Awe of Creation: Daniel Sennert's Conception of Total Substance, Innate Heat, and Spontaneous Generation, and His Atomistic Theory of Form.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 20, 2025).

ISBN:

9783031845567

3031845560

Publisher Number:

90103679075

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.