Leprosy in medieval England
"Set firmly in the medical, religious and cultural milieu of the European middle ages, this hook is the first serious academic study of a disease surrounded by misconceptions and prejudices." "Even specialists will be surprised to learn that most stereotypical ideas about the segregat...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Woodbridge
Boydell Press
2006
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schlagworte: |
Geschichte 1100-1500
> Culturele aspecten
> Lepra
> Medische aspecten
> Geschichte
> Gesellschaft
> Kultur
> Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
> History, Medieval
> Leper Colonies
> history
> Leprosy
> Patients
> Treatment
> epidemiology
> History
> Medicine, Medieval
> Social aspects
> Religion and Medicine
> Social Conditions
> Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland
> England
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Set firmly in the medical, religious and cultural milieu of the European middle ages, this hook is the first serious academic study of a disease surrounded by misconceptions and prejudices." "Even specialists will be surprised to learn that most stereotypical ideas about the segregation of medieval lepers originated in the nineteenth century; that leprosy excited a vast range of responses, from admiration to revulsion; that in the later middle ages it was diagnosed readily even by laity; that a wide range of treatment was available; that medieval leper hospitals were no more austere than the monasteries on which they were modelled; and that the decline of leprosy was not monocausal but implied a complex web of factors - medical, environmental, social and legal."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Beschreibung: | XII, 421 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 1843832739 1-84383-273-9 |