Medicine and the Reformation

ISBN-13: 9780415089746 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 197 str.

Ole Peter Grell; Andrew Cunningham

Opis

The tremendous changes in the role and significance of religion during Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation affected all of society. Yet, there have been few attempts to view medicine and the ideas underpinning it within the context of the period and see what changes it underwent.

Recenzje

`... an extremely useful collection.' - Paul Slack Social History of Medicine

'It certainly succeeds in showing the need to look at medical developments in the light of the religious culture in which they take place.' - History Review

Spis treści

Vivian Nutton, Wellcome Institute, London; Sachiko Kusukawa, Cambridge; David Harley, Oxford; Richard Palmer, Lambeth Palace Library, London; David Gentilcore, Cambridge; Luis Garcia-Ballester, Consell Superiou d'Investigacions Cientifiques, Barcelona, Spain

O autorze

Cunningham, Andrew; Grell, Ole Peter