Format:
1 Online-Ressource
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781474206693
Series Statement:
Cultural histories series
Content:
"How has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years? A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from ancient times to modernity, discusses this. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years of human history, this is the definitive reference work on the subject. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one volume, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover: 1. - Antiquity (500BCE - 800 CE); 2. - Middle Ages (800 - 1450); 3. - Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. - Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. - Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. - Modern Age (1920 - 2000+). Themes (and chapter titles) are: Environment; Food; Disease; Animals; Objects; Experiences; the Mind; Authority"--Abstract
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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1. Environment, Ido Israelowich -- 2. Food, John Wilkins -- 3. Disease, Julie Laskaris -- 4. Animals, Chiara Thumiger -- 5. Objects, Patty Baker -- 6. Experiences, Rebecca Flemming -- 7. Mind/Brain: Medieval Concepts, David Leith -- 8. Authority: Trusting the Text in the Early Middle Ages, Laurence M. V. Totelin.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472569936
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781474206693
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