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Health and Healing in Early Modern England - Studies in Social and Intellectual History (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Health and Healing in Early Modern England - Studies in Social and Intellectual History (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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The opening studies in this volume, on the revival of Galenic
medicine in Continental Europe, provide the context for its focus -
England in the 17th century. The author covers the discovery of the
circulation of the blood, but it is the underlying components of
health and medicine that form the subjects of this book. It deals,
notably, with the strong link then perceived between health and the
environment, perhaps even more present in people's minds than
today, with the relationship between medicine and religion, and
with medical ethics. Further studies discuss the provision made for
the sick poor, the popularisation of medicine, and the
epistemological basis of learned or university based medicine. A
theme throughout is the range of treatments available in the
'medical marketplace' of the 17th century, from wise women to
learned physicians.
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