Format:
1 online resource (283 pages)
ISBN:
9781442620681
Series Statement:
Toronto Iberic
Content:
Using the sole surviving admissions book for Toledo, Spain's Hospital de Santiago, Cristian Berco reconstructs the lives of men and women afflicted with the pox by tracing their experiences before, during, and after their hospitalization.
Content:
Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Beyond Mercury: Venereal Disease in Context -- 1 Getting Sick: Signs, Sin, and Social Worth -- 2 Encounters of the Third Kind: Medical Assumptions and Patients -- 3 Melting Pot: The Hospital de Santiago's Patients -- 4 Safeguarding Reputation: Gender, Hospitalization, and Textiles -- 5 Between Body and Soul: Treatment at the Hospital de Santiago -- 6 Getting Hitched: Pox, Sexuality, and Marriage -- 7 Making Ends Meet: Disease, Work, and Family -- 8 Playing Nice with Others: Pox and Community -- Conclusion - Patients as People: Disease, Society, and Beyond -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442649620
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442649620
Language:
English
Keywords:
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