Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-Industrial Society

Book Overview

The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was like in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521309158
• ISBN13: 9780521309158
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"