Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe
Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe Books
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Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, offers undergraduate students a concise introduction to a theme rich in historical excitement and interest. Mary Lindemann, a distinguished scholar of the history of medicine, writes with exceptional clarity and examines medicine from a social and cultural perspective rather than a narrowly scientific one. She focuses on the experience of illness and on patients and folk healers as much as on the rise of medical science, doctors and hospitals.
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In this book Mary Lindemann describes the do of medicine in early modern Europe (1500-1800) in its historical context, giving intriguing insights. She emphasizes that until recently this period was seen by medical history scientists as a dark period, in which no medical cure whatsoever was available. Also the advent of medicine was often described as a success tale of ingenious, white-coated, university-educated doctors.
In this book, part of the run New Approaches to European History, she takes a look at the do in this period through the eyes of a modern historian. She puts the developments into a wider perspective including other developments in the society. This leads to some revealing insights.
It may be right that there were not a lot of university-educated doctors nearly, especially in the countryside, but the place was literaaly swarming with other health providers, such as surgeons, barber-surgeons, apothecaries, midwives and many more people who ofter were quite well educated through a system of guilds. Also, there were quite a lot of broadcast and private initiatives to preclude or counteract outbreaks, give support to the poor and needy and to regulate health and medical do-correlated matters.
What remains is the impression that medicine in early modern Europe was less primitive than we often reckon (some supposedly very modern concepts such as an essential drugs list for apothecaries were already in place in the 17th century), even though there was often no cure available, and that the medical do was on the one hand solidly anchored in a historical tradition and on the other hand developing rapidly.
Rating: 4 / 5
In this book Mary Lindemann describes the do of medicine in early modern Europe (1500-1800) in its historical context, giving intriguing insights. She emphasizes that until recently this period was seen by medical history scientists as a dark period, in which no medical cure whatsoever was available. Also the advent of medicine was often described as a success tale of ingenious, white-coated, university-educated doctors.
In this book, part of the run New Approaches to European History, she takes a look at the do in this period through the eyes of a modern historian. She puts the developments into a wider perspective including other developments in the society. This leads to some revealing insights.
It may be right that there were not a lot of university-educated doctors nearly, especially in the countryside, but the place was literaaly swarming with other health providers, such as surgeons, barber-surgeons, apothecaries, midwives and many more people who ofter were quite well educated through a system of guilds. Also, there were quite a lot of broadcast and private initiatives to preclude or counteract outbreaks, give support to the poor and needy and to regulate health and medical do-correlated matters.
What remains is the impression that medicine in early modern Europe was less primitive than we often reckon (some supposedly very modern concepts such as an essential drugs list for apothecaries were already in place in the 17th century), even though there was often no cure available, and that the medical do was on the one hand solidly anchored in a historical tradition and on the other hand developing rapidly.
Rating: 4 / 5