Bücher der Reihe The History of Medicine in Context

This book focuses on the representation, perception and treatment of wounds in the Middle Ages. Contributors situate wounds within the context of religious belief before turning to theory, symbolism, and more grounded spheres involving the law and the battlefield. Adopting an innovative approach to the subject.

In early modern Europe medicine and theatre were often regarded as part of the same popular culture. This title uses the writings of three renowned physicians - the Swiss Platter brothers and their Austrian colleague Guarinonius - to explore the often neglected interfaces between healing and performance.

Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harvested for research and therapeutic purposes. This book examines the history of such activities, from the early nineteenth century through to the present.

This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or in unclear circumstances. It shows how autopsies informed the understanding of pathology of those involved, from medical practitioners' debates to laypeople¿s experience of suffering.

This book investigates German plague prints and treatises published between 1473 and 1573 in order to explore the intertwined histories of plague, print, medicine, and the Reformation. It presents the broadest study of German plague treatises in any language, and traces a German reform of healing that unfolded during the Renaissance and Reformat

Students notoriously vote with their feet, seeking out the best and most innovative teachers of their subject. This book deals with the peregrinatio medica from the viewpoint of the travelling students: who went where; how did they travel; what did they find when they arrived; and, what did they take back with them from their studies.

This collection of essays explores the multiple uses, constructions and meanings of Hippocrates and Hippocratic medicine since the Renaissance, and elucidate the cultural and social circumstances that encouraged the creation of such varied proposals.

The close relationship between religion, medicine and natural philosophy in the post-reformation period has been documented and explored in a body of research since the 1990s. However, the direct and continued impact of Melanchthonian natural philosophy within the individual Lutheran principalities of northern Europe in general and Scandinavia in particular still has to be fully investigated and understood. This volume provides insight into how and why medicine and natural philosophy in a "liberal" and Melanchthonian form could continue to blossom in Scandinavia despite a growing Lutheran uniformity promoted by the State.

Studies how doctors responded to deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850. This book uncovers a medical debate in which four generations of hygiene activists used biomedical science to transform the self, sexuality and community in order to regenerate a sick and decaying nation.

By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex.

An investigation that contributes to the scholarship on women and medicine in early modern Britain by examining the diagnosis and treatment of female patients by male professional medical practitioners from 1590 to 1740.

Examines the methods by which British authorities sought to keep their territories free from contagious diseases, and the reactions to, and practical consequences of, these policies. This study provides a picture of attitudes to trade, culture, politics and medicine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Explores the quality of medical, nursing and welfare facilities provided in hospitals for soldiers during the formative years of the British standing army between 1660 and 1714. This book shows how, in the latter part of the 17th century, the army adapted and developed its facilities in line with advances in science, medicine and military theory.

Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical advice. This study, the first full-length examination of the practice of consulting by letter.

Explores the identity of the 'French disease' (alias the 'French pox' or 'Morbus Gallicus') in the German Imperial city of Augsburg between 1495 and 1630. This book combines concern with conceptualisation of the disease with its practical application. It focuses on how theoretical understanding of the pox shaped the various therapeutic reactions.

The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks at the investigation of anatomy in the 'long' eighteenth century in disciplinary terms. It considers the practical aspects of anatomizing, the questions of how one became an anatomist, and where and how the discipline was practised.

Places the diverse practices of immunity in their historical contexts. This volume suggests that it was the craft-like, small-scale, and local conditions of clinical medicine that turned the immunity of individuals and populations into biomedical objects. It is suitable for historians and sociologists of health.

This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the 'ceremony of childbirth', the popular ritual through which women collectively controlled this.

Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine. This book outlines the early history of birth control in India, particularly the Tamil south, and illuminates India's role in a global birth control network.

Dr Henri de Rothschild was a fifth generation Rothschild and perhaps the most famous of the Paris Rothschilds of the finde-siecle period. This is a biography of Henri de Rothschild that focuses on his medical achievements and that of his close family in France.