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Health and Wellness in the 19th Century (Hardcover, New)
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Health and Wellness in the 19th Century (Hardcover, New)
Series: Health and Wellness in Daily Life
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Medicine in the 19th century may strike us as primitive by today's
standards, but widespread social change of the era brought about
new ideas and practices in health and healing-all described in this
engaging book. Exploring the history of medicine in the 19th
century around the world, this book showcases the wide range of
medical ideas, practices, institutions, and patient experiences,
revealing how the exchanges of ideas and therapies between
different systems of medicine resulted in patients enjoying a
surprising degree of choice. The author offers a unique perspective
that provides an introduction to 19th-century medicine on a global
stage and places the advancement of medicine within the context of
wider historical changes. Chapters examine areas of dramatic
change, such as the development of surgery, as well as the
fundamental continuities in the use of traditional forms of
supernatural healing, covering western, Chinese, unani, ayurvedic,
and folk medicine-based understandings of the body and disease.
Additionally, the book describes how the culture of medicine
reflected and responded to the challenges posed by urbanization,
industrialization, and global movement. Comprehensively describes
the major systems of medical theory around the world Sets medicine
into a wider historical context that shows how all systems
responded to urbanization and the global spread of disease Explores
the patient's experience of illness and describes the breadth of
the available therapeutic options
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