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Preface | |
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List of contributors | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction | |
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Medicine in western Europe in 1500 | |
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Introduction | |
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Rome and Europe in 1500 | |
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The organization of medical practice | |
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The medical knowledge of the ancient Greeks | |
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The making of the learned doctor in medieval Europe | |
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Christianity and healing | |
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The old and the new | |
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Conclusion | |
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The sick and their healers | |
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Introduction | |
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Medical care: its economy and control | |
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The maintenance of health | |
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Women as healers | |
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Leonardo Fioravanti: a sixteenth-century itinerant healer | |
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Barber-surgeons, surgeons and apothecaries | |
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The skills and career of a physician: Girolamo Cardano | |
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Conclusion | |
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The medical renaissance of the sixteenth century: Vesalius, medical humanism and bloodletting | |
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Introduction | |
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The Renaissance and medical humanism | |
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Bloodletting | |
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Humanism, bloodletting and a new medical controversy | |
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Andreas Vesalius | |
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The Fabrica | |
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Vesalius' legacy | |
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Medicine and religion in sixteenth-century Europe | |
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Introduction | |
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Medicine and religion in the later Middle Ages | |
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Medicine and the Reformation | |
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The Reformation, the Counter-Reformation and attitudes to popular and sacred healing | |
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Paracelsus and Paracelsianism | |
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Religion and epidemics | |
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Health care | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chemical medicine and the challenge to Galenism: the legacy of Paracelsus, 1560-1700 | |
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Introduction | |
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The Paracelsian revolution, 1560-1640 | |
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The new challenge of Helmontianism, 1650-1700 | |
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Conclusion | |
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Policies of health: diseases, poverty and hospitals | |
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Introduction | |
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Diseases and society | |
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Hospitals | |
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Public health in the eighteenth century: the Habsburg territories and the German lands | |
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Conclusion | |
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Old and new models of the body | |
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Introduction | |
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Harvey and the circulation of the blood | |
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The mechanical body | |
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Glands everywhere: the body according to Malpighi | |
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The body expressed in numbers | |
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The power of patients | |
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The sensible body | |
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Conclusion | |
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Women and medicine | |
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Introduction | |
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A different body? | |
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Questions of generation | |
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Childbirth: from female ceremony to male medical practice | |
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Conclusion | |
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The care and cure of mental illness | |
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Introduction | |
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Richard Napier and his patients: a case study | |
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Caring for the mad in eighteenth-century Europe: a 'psychiatric dark age'? | |
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Conclusion | |
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War, medicine and the military revolution | |
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Introduction | |
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Changes to warfare in the early modern period | |
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New wounds and old diseases | |
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Surgical treatment of gunshot wounds | |
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Wounds to the head and the disappearance of the helmet | |
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Treatment of burns | |
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Amputations | |
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Foot rot and shell shock | |
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Scurvy | |
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Hygiene | |
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Military hospitals | |
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Conclusion | |
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Environment, health and population | |
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Introduction | |
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Airs, waters, places | |
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Analysing places, analysing populations | |
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Changing populations? The case of inoculation | |
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Changing places? Hygiene and improvement | |
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Conclusion | |
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Medicine and health in the age of European colonialism | |
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Introduction | |
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The biological effects of European colonialism | |
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Climate, place and health | |
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Perceptions of health and new environments in the early English settlements of North America | |
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Systems of medical care in the Spanish and English colonies | |
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Remedies and medical contact between the old and new worlds | |
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The exchange of medical knowledge | |
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Medicine and slavery | |
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Conclusion | |
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Organization, training and the medical marketplace in the eighteenth century | |
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Introduction | |
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The organization of licensed medical practice | |
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The distribution of licensed medical practitioners: the case of France | |
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Medical training | |
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The medical marketplace | |
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Conclusion | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |