The Common Lot
Sickness, Medical Occupations and the Urban Poor in Early Modern England
1st Edition
Published on 11. June 2014
284 pages
978-1-317-89255-7 (ISBN)
Description
This important collection of Margaret Pelling's essays brings together her key studies of health, medicine and poverty in Tudor and Stuart England - including a number published here for the first time. They show that - then as now - health and medical care were everyday obsessions of ordinary people in the Tudor and Stuart era. Margaret Pelling's book brings this vital dimension of the early modern world in from the periphery of specialist study to the heart of the concerns of social, economic and cultural historians.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
8,14 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-89255-7 (9781317892557)
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Margaret Pelling
The Common Lot
Sickness, Medical Occupations and the Urban Poor in Early Modern England
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The Common Lot
Sickness, Medical Occupations and the Urban Poor in Early Modern England
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Person
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Content
Introduction; Part I The Urban Environment; Chapter One Medicine and the Environment in ShakespeareaEUR (TM)s England; Chapter Two Food, Status and Knowledge: Attitudes to Diet in Early Modern England; Chapter Three Illness among the Poor in Early Modern English Towns; Chapter Four Healing the Sick Poor: Social Policy and Disability in Norwich, 1550-1640; Part II Agegroups and Gender; Chapter Five Child Health as a Social Value in Early Modern England; Chapter Six Old Age, Poverty and Disability in Early Modern Norwich: Work, Remarriage and Other Expedients; Chapter Seven Older Women: Household, Caring and Other Occupations in the Late Sixteenth-century Town; Part III Occupations; Chapter Eight Nurses and Nursekeepers: Problems of Identification in the Early Modern Period; Chapter Nine Occupational Diversity: Barber-surgeons and Other Trades, 1550-1640; Chapter Ten Trade or Profession? Medical Practice in Early Modern England;
