Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England

by Olivia Weisser

Book Overview

In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal diaries, medical texts, and devotional literature, the author enters the sickrooms of a diverse sampling of early modern Britons. The resulting stories of sickness reveal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300224303
• ISBN13: 9780300224306
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 9.0"