Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500–1800

Peter Elmer is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Ole Peter Grell is Professor of History at the Open University

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Medical practice and theory: The classical and medieval heritage2. The sick body and its healers, 1500–17003. The medical renaissance of the sixteenth century: Vesalius, medical humanism and bloodletting4. Medicine and religion in sixteenth-century Europe5. Chemical medicine and the challenge to Galenism: The legacy of Paracelsus6. Charity, the state and public health in early modern Europe7. New models of the body, 1600–18008. Women and medicine in early modern Europe9. The care and cure of the insane in early modern Europe10. War and medicine in early modern Europe11. Environment, health and population, 1500–180012. European medicine in the age of colonialism13. Medical organisation, training and the medical marketplace in eighteenth-century EuropeIndex

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