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Ill Composed - Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Ill Composed - Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions
and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and
imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range of
sources, including personal diaries, medical texts, and devotional
literature, the author enters the sickrooms of a diverse sampling
of early modern Britons. The resulting stories of sickness reveal
how men and women of the era viewed and managed their health both
similarly and differently, as well as the ways prevailing religious
practices, medical knowledge, writing conventions, and everyday
life created and supported those varying perceptions. A unique
cultural history of illness, Weisser's groundbreaking study bridges
the fields of patient history and gender history. Based on the
detailed examination of over fifty firsthand accounts, this
fascinating volume offers unprecedented insight into what it was
like to live, suffer, and inhabit a body more than three centuries
ago.
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