Alanna Skuse: The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack, Gebunden
The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack
- How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
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- Verlag:
- Oneworld Publications, 10/2025
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781836430773
- Artikelnummer:
- 12301847
- Umfang:
- 384 Seiten
- Maße:
- 216 x 135 mm
- Stärke:
- 33 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 16.10.2025
- Hinweis
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Klappentext
Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine... and how notto die in the Renaissance
'Meticulously researched and deliciously detailed.' Victoria Shepherd, author of A History of Delusions
The cliched view medicine in the Renaissance world is dreadful: gore-splattered hacksaws, arsenic concoctions, the four humours and all those leeches...
Reality, however, proves somewhat different.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a medical revolution was afoot. Physicians' education was being formalised. Surgeons were documenting the intricacies of the human body with ever-greater skill. And, as European powers expanded into the New World, novel medicines and treatments were being discovered.
Alanna Skuse ventures into the bustling medical marketplace of Renaissance England - a world of travelling surgeons, prosthetics craftsmen, faith healers and snake oil merchants.
- Discover domestic healers like Elizabeth Freke, a doyenne of folk remedies, always ready to dole out tonics and elixirs to her ailing neighbours.
- Browse the shelves of the early modern apothecary with Nicholas Culpeperas he lays the groundwork for the modern pharmacy.
- Meet the expert midwife Jane Sharp, successful author and pioneer of women's health.
- Join the intrepid plague doctor George Thomson as he braves London's Great Plague.
Humane and entrancing, The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack reveals the people and stories behind a scientific revolution.
