Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• File Size : 55,7 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 2024

This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and experiences are tied to gender.

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• File Size : 43,8 Mb
• Release Date : 07 April 2021

Recognizing the variety of health experiences across geographical borders, Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World interrogates the concepts of "health" and "healing" between 1500 and 1800. Through an interdisciplinary

• Publisher : Manchester University Press
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• Release Date : 20 May 1998

How did people of the past explain and deal with illness? This pioneering new book explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 29,8 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 1998

A collection of 11 essays published between 1981 and 1996 reflecting the shift of emphasis by historians of medicine from the triumph of the existing medical industry to the place of health in

• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• File Size : 46,5 Mb
• Release Date : 28 October 2014

Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and

• Publisher : UNC Press Books
• File Size : 48,6 Mb
• Release Date : 23 February 2017

Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 26 January 2016

This interdisciplinary work, the first of two volumes, presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in different locations in and around the Indian Ocean from the ninth

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 21 March 2024

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in early modern medicine. It provides an array of interpretive strategies while

• Publisher : Manchester University Press
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• Release Date : 09 March 2004

The period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment constitutes a vital phase in the history of European medicine. Elements of continuity with the classical and medieval past are evident in

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
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• Release Date : 30 March 2023

The epic poems written during the rise of Portugal and Spain on the global stage often dealt with topics quite unimaginable to the likes of Virgil or Homer. These poems