Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century [FIRST EDITION]

Webster, Charles (editor, Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford)

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, London, England, 1979

Beschreibung

Fine condition black boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Dedication; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction by Charles Webster; and Index. Illustrated with tables, graphs, black-and-white drawings plus an illustrated frontispiece. "Health, Medicine and Mortality comprises a . collection of original studies concerned with a wide range of issues relating the health and disease in the sixteenth century. The book is concerned on the one hand with the state of health of the population and on the other with the agencies of health care. The first group of contributions provides, with respect to rural and urban populations, a detailed consideration of diet and nutrition, epidemics and crises of subsistence, the pattern of age-specific mortality, and the prevalent causes of disease and death. The second group of essays is concerned with popular medicine, medical practitioners in the urban and rural settings, and the training of humanistic physicians. This is the first volume to deal with such a wide spectrum of issues relating to health, disease and medicine within the community for any period of English history. It is also the first to adopt throughout quantitative bases for the problems under investigation. Although specifically addressed to the English situation, the book will attract general interest as a model investigation into medicine in other western European societies. The work included in the volume merits comparison with demographical studies undertaken by French social historians. The topics discussed are increasingly recognized as being among the most important aspects of social history." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003996

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Health, Medicine and Mortality in the ...

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, London, England

Erscheinungsdatum: 1979

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition