UID:
almahu_9949099778502882
Format:
1 online resource (330 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9789048544462 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Premodern health, disease, and disability ; 3
Content:
This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250-1550. By foregrounding gender as an organizing principle of healthcare, the contributors challenge traditional binaries that ahistorically separate care from cure, medicine from religion, and domestic healing from fee-for-service medical exchanges. The essays collected here illuminate previously hidden and undervalued forms of healthcare and varieties of body knowledge produced and transmitted outside the traditional settings of university, guild, and academy. They draw on non-traditional sources-vernacular regimens, oral communications, religious and legal sources, images and objects-to reveal additional locations for producing body knowledge in households, religious communities, hospices, and public markets. Emphasizing cross-confessional and multi-linguistic exchange, the essays also reveal the multiple pathways for knowledge transfer in these centuries. The volume provides a synoptic view of how gender and cross-cultural exchange shaped medical theory and practice in later medieval and Renaissance societies.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jun 2021).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9789463724517
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9789048544462/type/BOOK
