Health and Wellness in the Renaissance and Enlightenment

Joseph P. Byrne, PhD, is historian and professor of honors humanities at Belmont University, Nashville, TN. His published works include ABC-CLIO's The Black Death, Daily Life during the Black Death, The Encyclopedia of the Black Death, and Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues.

• Series Foreword1. Factors in Early Modern Health and MedicineFactors in Individual Health and Well-BeingThe Early Modern WorldSocietal Factors in Health and Medicine2. Education and Training: Learned and NonlearnedWestern TraditionsEarly Modern MexicansAfrican Slaves in the CaribbeanThe Chinese3. Religion and MedicineThe Expanding Christian WorldAfricans at Home and EnslavedReligion and Medicine among the AztecsMing and Qing China4. Women's Health and MedicineThe AztecsCaribbean SlavesThe ChineseThe Europeans5. Infants and ChildrenThey Are Born: Neonatal and Infant HealthHazards to Older Children's Health and LivesEuropean Institutions of Child Care6. Infectious DiseasesBackgroundThe Continuing Saga: Fleas, Rats, and PlagueMosquitoes, Malaria, and Yellow FeverFilth and Parasites: Typhus and DysenteryWhen the Air Is Deadly: Smallpox, Influenza, and MeaslesWaterborne Diseases: Cholera and Typhoid FeverWhen Sex Needed Drugs: Syphilis and Other Venereal Diseases7. Environmental and Occupational HazardsEnvironmental HazardsOccupational Hazards8. Surgeons and SurgeryThe AztecsThe ChineseThe Islamic WorldThe Europeans9. Mental and Emotional Health and DisordersThe AztecsCaribbean SlavesThe ChineseThe Turks and PersiansThe Europeans10. Apothecaries and Their PharmacopeiasTypes of Materia MedicaEarly Modern Dispensers of Medicinal Materials and Their SourcesThe Worldwide Pharmacopeia11. War, Health, and MedicineThe Aztec Way of WarEuropeans at WarCare for the Wounded and VeteransWar within the House of Islam12. Medical InstitutionsThe ChineseThe Islamic WorldThe EuropeansEuropean Institutions Abroad13. Healing and the ArtsThe Visual ArtsDoctors in Dramas and NovelsMedicine in PoetryGlossaryBibliographyIndex

[A] well-written text. . . . [An] ideal starting point for anyone interested in the place of medicine during this time period. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate and general collections in history, women's history, and history of medicine.