Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780367557225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 400 str.

Opis

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in early modern medicine.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Instituions  1. The Transatlantic Business of Medicine  2. Medicine in the Convent  3. The Curious Case of the Two Antonios: What Hospital Records Can and Cannot Tell Us  4. Legal Records in Early Modern Spain  5. Brotherhoods, Poor Relief, and Healthcare  Part 2: Medical Writing  6. Medical Casebooks  7. Experimenting with Drugs  8. An Imperial Doctor’s Guide to Bone Setting, 1742  9. Physicians’ Treatises: the Ottoman Case  10. Missionary Remedies  11. Vernacular Medical Print: Or How to Read a Recipe Book  Part 3: The Everyday  12. Life Writing  13. Family Letters  14. Newspaper Advertisements from the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean  15. Disability History from Slavery’s Archive  16. Reproducing Ballads  Part 4: Objects & Images  17. Book Illustrations: Jane Sharp’s The Midwives Book  18. Medicine Containers and Healing Vessels

O autorze

Olivia Weisser is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she teaches and writes about the history of health and healing in the 1500s-1700s. Her first book, Ill Composed (2015), examined how gender shaped patients’ perceptions of sickness. She is finishing a new book on the history of venereal disease.