The Surgeon, the Midwife, the Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England - Hardcover
by Alanna Skuse
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oneworld PublicationsISBN-13:9781836430773ISBN-10:1836430779UPC:9781836430773Book Category:History, Medical, ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, HistoryBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:8.50 x 5.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SC93K0RPVR
The Surgeon, the Midwife, the Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine... and how not to die in the Renaissance
'An entertaining history of medicine... Skuse brings a deep familiarity with the contemporary sources and a dry wit.' Dan Jones, The Sunday Times The cliched view medicine in the Renaissance world is dreadful: gore-splattered hacksaws, arsenic concoctions, the four humours and all those leeches... Reality,...
'An entertaining history of medicine... Skuse brings a deep familiarity with the contemporary sources and a dry wit.' Dan Jones, The Sunday Times The cliched view medicine in the Renaissance world is dreadful: gore-splattered hacksaws, arsenic concoctions, the four humours and all those leeches... Reality,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oneworld PublicationsISBN-13:9781836430773ISBN-10:1836430779UPC:9781836430773Book Category:History, Medical, ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, HistoryBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:8.50 x 5.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SC93K0RPVR
Dr Alanna Skuse is a literary scholar, historian and author. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Reading and has written and broadcasted for BBC Radio, Wellcome Stories, the Conversation and History Today.
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