1st Edition
Medicine and the Reformation
206 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The tremendous changes in the role and significance of religion during Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation affected all of society. Yet, there have been few attempts to view medicine and the ideas underpinning it within the context of the period and see what changes it underwent. Medicine and the Reformation charts how both popular and official religion affected orthodox medicine... Read more
Vivian Nutton, Wellcome Institute, London; Sachiko Kusukawa, Cambridge; David Harley, Oxford; Richard Palmer, Lambeth Palace Library, London; David Gentilcore, Cambridge; Luis Garcia-Ballester, Consell Superiou d'Investigacions Cientifiques, Barcelona, Spain
Biography
Cunningham, Andrew; Grell, Ole Peter
`... an extremely useful collection.' - Paul Slack Social History of Medicine
'It certainly succeeds in showing the need to look at medical developments in the light of the religious culture in which they take place.' - History Review
