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• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 06 October 2015

This book takes a thematic look at the historical roots of the debate surrounding old age and disease.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 01 July 2010

A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 08 February 2011

Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in

• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
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• Release Date : 25 August 2011

In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explore medical developments and trends in writing

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 11 December 2015

This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments. The individual chapters chart this interrelation in a variety of contexts, from the

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 01 July 2019

Medicine and the Inquisition offers a wide-ranging and subtle account of the role played by the Roman, Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions in shaping medical learning and practice in the early

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 11 November 2015

This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 08 June 2024

This book contains substantial new historical research on medicine in early modern Ireland. Its twelve chapters address a variety of subjects and situate them in appropriate contexts. The main focus

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 20 July 2018

This book presents a uniquely broad and pioneering history of premodern toxicology by exploring how late medieval and early modern (c. 1200–1600) physicians discussed the relationship between poison, medicine, and disease.

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 08 June 2024

This collection of twelve essays explores various aspects in the development of medicine from the Middle Ages to 1700 with a particular emphasis on revisiting original texts for new insights in