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Medicine and the Body in Early Modern Europe
Overview
This volume brings together essays on a wide range of topics, from the popular notion of climacterical years believed to recur every seventh year, and the origins and development of the concept of palliative care in premodern medicine, to the early modern understanding of melancholia as a disease rather than just a temperament, and its visual representation in the famous Melancholia paintings of Lukas Cranach the Elder.
Content Highlights
It examines the casuistic training, empirical observations, and public self-fashioning of learned physicians, and explores major concepts of early modern medical theory, such as innate heat and diseases of the total substance as presented and elaborated in Avicenna's Canon medicinae and in Daniel Sennert's atomistic interpretation of body and soul.
Publication Details
Published for the first time in an English translation, these essays offer readers many illuminating insights into the fascinating world of early modern medicine.
