9789042018143 - New Medical Challenges during the Scottish Enlightenment (Clio Medica, Band 78) von Risse, Guenter B. (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 392 Pages, Previous Owners Signature O/W Fine.

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9789042018143.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9789042018143.

Original publisher's paper-covered boards, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: (vi), 386pp., chapter notes, bibliographical notes, index. Very fine copy - as new. Volume 78: Clio Medica. The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorAn award-winning author, Guenter B. Risse is Professor Emeritus of the History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, Seatt.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New Medical Challenges explores a wide range of social and medical practices, exposing the contradictions and ambiguities found in eighteenth-century Scottish health, science and medicine. The overall picture casts further light on the nature of the Enlightenment as a cultural phenomenon. Commercial society created new jobs, wealth and desires, that threatened contemporary values and physical health. Both luxury and poverty took their toll, spawning disease among the affluent and the poor. A number of key issues are examined, including the role of charity, medical debates and competition, vivisection, and diseases of the time - such as 'pulmonary consumption', 'mill reek' and 'ague'. Special chapters are devoted to 'female troubles', 'hysteria' and 'hypochondriasis', showing the evolving relationships across gender and class lines between poor patients and their physicians. To place medical ideas and practices into proper context, the essays offer extensive background information and rediscover the lost voices of prominent physicians involved in promoting health and battling illness. Thanks to the richness of seldom-tapped archival sources - book manuscripts, consultation letters, hospital registration and management records, together with student essays, lecture notes and not Elektronisches Buch - the selected episodes expose a world of uncertainty, confusion and paradox. New Medical Challenges tells a wide range of stories that will be of great interest to a broad readership concerned with past health issues.