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Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial Society - Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
Roy Porter
Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial Society - Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
Roy Porter
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 pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves.
364 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | February 13, 2003 |
ISBN13 | 9780521530613 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 364 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 24 mm · 532 g |
Language | English |
Editor | Porter, Roy |
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