Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England. - RAWCLIFFE, C.,
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?Carole Rawcliffe?s social history of medicine in late-medieval England is a valuable piece of scholarship. It is intended for a wide readership, and serves as a general introduction to medieval medical theory and practice for readers with no previous knowledge of the field, at the same time providing a great deal of new information on the social ramifications of medicine for a more specialised audience. Rawcliffe?s treatment of the topic reveals and benefits from her familiarity with other aspects of medieval society - social stratification in general, and the life style of the nobility and royalty in particular. (?) The book contains nine chapters, a short conclusion, and a brief section on further reading. The first chapter focuses on diseases of the soul. Rawcliffe shows how religious and moral ideas permeated medieval medical theory and practice and affected not only attitudes towards, and the treatment of, various mental disorders, but also diseases of the body like leprose or the plague. The chapter on...
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Stroud, 1995. XVI,241,(XV)p. ills.(B&W as well as full colour photographs). Original black hard bound with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Signature and date in pencil on free endpaper. Nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: RAWCLIFFE, C.,] [Uitgever: Alan Sutton Publishing] [Jaar: 1995] [Titel: Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England.]
