Early Modern Medicine

An Introduction to Source Analysis
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-55723-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 716 g

Reihe: Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources

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 also highlighting new trends in the field.

Each chapter serves as a study of a different type of source, including the benefits and limitations of that source and what it can reveal about the history of medicine. Contributors provide practical strategies for locating and interpreting sources, putting texts and objects into conversation, and explaining potential contradictions. A wide variety of sources, including account books, legal records, and personal letters, provide new opportunities for understanding early modern medicine and developing skills in historical analysis. Together, the chapters highlight emerging methodologies and debates, while covering a range of themes in the field, from reproductive health to hospital care to household medicine.

With wide geographical breadth, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers looking to understand how to better engage with primary sources, as well as readers interested in early modern history and the history of medicine.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weisser, Olivia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part 1: Instituions  1. The Transatlantic Business of Medicine  2. Medicine in the Convent  3. The Curious Case of the Two Antonios: What Hospital Records Can and Cannot Tell Us  4. Legal Records in Early Modern Spain  5. Brotherhoods, Poor Relief, and Healthcare  Part 2: Medical Writing  6. Medical Casebooks  7. Experimenting with Drugs  8. An Imperial Doctor’s Guide to Bone Setting, 1742  9. Physicians’ Treatises: the Ottoman Case  10. Missionary Remedies  11. Vernacular Medical Print: Or How to Read a Recipe Book  Part 3: The Everyday  12. Life Writing  13. Family Letters  14. Newspaper Advertisements from the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean  15. Disability History from Slavery’s Archive  16. Reproducing Ballads  Part 4: Objects & Images  17. Book Illustrations: Jane Sharp’s The Midwives Book  18. Medicine Containers and Healing Vessels

Über Autor(innen)

Olivia Weisser is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she teaches and writes about the history of health and healing in the 1500s–1700s. Her first book, Ill Composed (2015), examined how gender shaped patients’ perceptions of sickness. She is finishing a new book on the history of venereal disease.