Description
Book SynopsisThe period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment constitutes a vital phase in the history of European medicine. This volume contains a selection of classical writing and up-to-date research in the field, and extracts from contemporary sources.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
1. Medical practice and theory: The classical and medieval heritage
2. The sick body and its healers, 1500–1700
3. The medical renaissance of the sixteenth century: Vesalius, medical humanism and bloodletting
4. Medicine and religion in sixteenth-century Europe
5. Chemical medicine and the challenge to Galenism: The legacy of Paracelsus
6. Charity, the state and public health in early modern Europe
7. New models of the body, 1600–1800
8. Women and medicine in early modern Europe
9. The care and cure of the insane in early modern Europe
10. War and medicine in early modern Europe
11. Environment, health and population, 1500–1800
12. European medicine in the age of colonialism
13. Medical organisation, training and the medical marketplace in eighteenth-century Europe
Index
