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Experiencing Illness and the Sick Body in Early Modern Europe by M. Stolberg
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Based on thousands of letters written by patients and their relatives and on a wide range of other sources, this book provides the first comprehensive account of how early modern people understood, experienced and dealt with common diseases and how they dealt with them on a day-to-day basis.

Author Biography:

MICHAEL STOLBERG was trained as both an historian and a physician. He has worked in Germany, Italy and the UK and, since 2004, has been chair of History of Medicine at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He has published widely on the historical anthropology of illness and the body and on the theory and practice of learned medicine in the early modern period.   Translated from the German original by Leonhard Unglaub and Logan Kennedy
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January 1st, 2011
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  • Professional & Vocational
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1st ed. 2011
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VI, 292 p.
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292
ISBN-13
9781349318377
Product ID
25599134

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