Medicine and the Body in Early Modern Europe - Hardcover
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Medicine and the Body in Early Modern Europe
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'...
Michael Stolberg is Senior Professor at the University of Würzburg, in Germany. Originally trained as a physician, he began working as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Sociology in Munich in 1989 and, in 1994, received a PhD in history and philosophy at the University of Munich. Over the following years, he worked as a Research Fellow in Venice,...
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