Health and society in Early Modern Sweden
Acknowledgements Meanings of Health in Early Modern Sweden - Charlotta Forss and Mari Eyice Illness as Incapacity to Work in Early Modern Sweden - Anton Runesson The Body in the Bathhouse: Health and Bathing in Early Modern Sweden - Charlotta Forss Somewhat heated, quick and lively: Humoral Explanat...
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
2024
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| Schriftenreihe: | Premodern health, disease, and disability
10 |
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European history
> Europäische Geschichte: Mittelalter
> Geschichte der Medizin
> HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia
> HISTORY / Medieval
> HISTORY / Social History
> History of medicine
> MEDICAL / History
> Medieval history
> Social & cultural history
> Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
> Schweden
> Sweden
> Gesundheit
> Geschichte 1700-1800
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| Zusammenfassung: | Acknowledgements Meanings of Health in Early Modern Sweden - Charlotta Forss and Mari Eyice Illness as Incapacity to Work in Early Modern Sweden - Anton Runesson The Body in the Bathhouse: Health and Bathing in Early Modern Sweden - Charlotta Forss Somewhat heated, quick and lively: Humoral Explanations of the Learning Difficulties of Charles XI of Sweden (1655-1697) - Andreas Hellerstedt Health in Body and Soul in a female Birgittine convent 1516-1522 - Gabriela Bjarne Larsson Curing Madness and Mental Disturbances: Religious Healing Activities in Early Modern Swedish Local Communities - Riikka Miettinen Not Quacks but Close: Reappraising the Role of Physicians on the Eighteenth-Century Medical Market - Hjalmar Fors Gender, Health and Hair in Sweden, 1740 - 1840 - Hedvig Widmalm Gender Norms and Early Modern Healthcare: Barber-surgeons in Sweden c. 1600-1900 - Maria Sjöberg Epilogue: Epistemologies of Body and Soul: Considering the Early Modern and (late) Modern History of Health - Helena Tolvhed List of tables and figure The understanding of what health is and how it can be maintained has changed through history. Questions like who can perform healing? and what sort of bodies are considered healthy? have elicited widely divergent responses in different societies. This volume explores how health was understood and practiced in the early modern Nordic region, with a focus on Sweden, including Finland. The chapters examine topics such as the dyslexia of Charles XI, lay perceptions of bodily and mental variability, and the health benefits attributed to using the sauna. Together, the essays give a holistic view of how practices of health evolved in close symmetry with societal institutions and localised worldviews. As such, the volume is a timely intervention into the social history of medicine, contributing to the historicisation of health as a concept and shedding light on developments in the Nordic world |
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| Beschreibung: | 240 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9789463724296 978-94-6372-429-6 |