Patients and practitioners: lay perceptions of medicine in pre-industrial society
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521530613
Date de publication :
13 févr. 2003
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,4 cm
Poids :
532 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was like in pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves.