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The Sick Child in Early Modern England, 1580-1720 (Hardcover, New)
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The Sick Child in Early Modern England, 1580-1720 (Hardcover, New)
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The Sick Child in Early Modern England is a powerful exploration of
the treatment, perception, and experience of illness in childhood,
from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. At this
time, the sickness or death of a child was a common occurrence -
over a quarter of young people died before the age of fifteen - and
yet this subject has received little scholarly attention. Hannah
Newton takes three perspectives: first, she investigates medical
understandings and treatments of children. She argues that a
concept of 'children's physic' existed amongst doctors and
laypeople: the young were thought to be physiologically distinct,
and in need of special medicines. Secondly, she examines the
family's' experience, demonstrating that parents devoted
considerable time and effort to the care of their sick offspring,
and experienced feelings of devastating grief upon their illnesses
and deaths. Thirdly, she takes the strikingly original viewpoint of
sick children themselves, offering rare and intimate insights into
the emotional, spiritual, physical, and social dimensions of
sickness, pain, and death. Newton asserts that children's
experiences were characterised by profound ambivalence: whilst
young patients were often tormented by feelings of guilt, fears of
hell, and physical pain, sickness could also be emotionally and
spiritually uplifting, and invited much attention and love from
parents. Drawing on a wide array of printed and archival sources,
The Sick Child is of vital interest to scholars working in the
interconnected fields of the history of medicine, childhood,
parenthood, bodies, emotion, pain, death, religion, and gender.
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