Divine Doctors And Dreadful Distempers

Author : Christi Sumich
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209472
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers written by Christi Sumich and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers examines the discourse of seventeenth-century English physicians to demonstrate that physicians utilized cultural attitudes and beliefs to create medical theory. They meshed moralism with medicine to self-fashion an image of themselves as knowledgeable health experts whose education assured good judgment and sage advice, and whose interest in the health of their patients surpassed the peddling of a single nostrum to everyone. The combination of morality with medicine gave them the support of the influential godly in society because physicians’ theories about disease and its prevention supported contemporary concerns that sinfulness was rampant. Particularly disturbing to the godly were sins deemed most threatening to the social order: lasciviousness, ungodliness, and unruliness, all of which were most clearly and threateningly manifested in the urban poor. Physicians’ medical theories and suggestions for curbing some of the most feared and destructive diseases in the seventeenth century, most notably plague and syphilis, focused on reforming or incarcerating the sick and sinful poor. Doing so helped propel physicians to an elevated position in the hierarchy of healers competing for patients in seventeenth-century England.

Author : Irene Sibbing-Plantholt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004512411
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Image of Mesopotamian Divine Healers written by Irene Sibbing-Plantholt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first in-depth analysis of Mesopotamian healing goddesses and their relationship to asûs, “healers”. Through this, Sibbing-Plantholt provides unprecedented insight into the diverse Mesopotamian medical marketplace and how professional healers operating within it legitimized themselves.

Author : Patrick Outhwaite
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1914049268
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy written by Patrick Outhwaite and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A consideration of the allegory of Christ the Divine Physician in medical and religious writings. Discourses of physical and spiritual health were intricately entwined in the Middle Ages, shaping intellectual concepts as well as actual treatment. The allegory of Christ as Divine Physician is an example of this intersection: it appears frequently in both medical and religious writings as a powerful figure of healing and salvation, and was invoked by dissidents and reformists in religious controversies. Drawing on previously unexplored manuscript material, this book examines the use of the Christus Medicus tradition during a period of religious turbulence. Via an interdisciplinary analysis of literature, sermons, and medical texts, it shows that Wycliffites in England and Hussites in Bohemia used concepts developed in hospital settings to press for increased lay access to Scripture and the sacraments against the strictures of the Church hierarchy. Tracing a story of reform and controversy from localised institutional contexts to two of the most important pan-European councils of the fifteenth century, Constance and Basel, it argues that at a point when the body of the Church was strained by multiple popes, heretics and schismatics, the allegory came into increasing use to restore health and order.

Author : Barbara A. Kaminska
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004472428
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Images of Miraculous Healing in the Early Modern Netherlands written by Barbara A. Kaminska and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Kaminska argues that visual imagery was central to premodern disability discourses and shows how interpretations of miracle stories served to justify expectations toward the impaired and the poor.

Author : Anuradha Gobin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487503806
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Picturing Punishment written by Anuradha Gobin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together themes in the history of art, punishment, religion, and the history of medicine, Picturing Punishment provides new insights into the wider importance of the criminal to civic life.

Author : Katherine Byrne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526163276
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Diagnosing history written by Katherine Byrne and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely collection examines representations of medicine and medical practices in international period drama television. A preoccupation with medical plots and settings can be found across a range of important historical series, including Outlander, Poldark, The Knick, Call the Midwife, La Peste and A Place to Call Home. Such shows offer a critique of medical history while demonstrating how contemporary viewers access and understand the past. Topics covered in this collection include the innovations and horrors of surgery; the intersection of gender, class, race and medicine on the American frontier; psychiatry and the trauma of war; and the connections between past and present pandemics. Featuring original chapters on period television from the UK, the US, Spain and Australia, Diagnosing history offers an accessible, global and multidisciplinary contribution to both televisual and medical history.

Author : Lesa Scholl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351402137
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Medicine, Health and Being Human written by Lesa Scholl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine, Health and Being Human begins a conversation to explore how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected cultural understandings of what it means to be human. With chapters that span from the early modern period through to the contemporary world, and are drawn from a range of disciplines, this volume holds that incremental historical and cultural influences have brought about an understanding of humanity in which the medical is ingrained, consciously or unconsciously, usually as a mode of legitimisation. Divided into three parts, the book follows a narrative path from the integrity of the human soul, through to the integrity of the material human body, then finally brought together through engaging with end-of-life responses. Part 1 examines the move from spirituality to psychiatry in terms of the way medical science has influenced cultural understandings of the mind. Part 2 interrogates the role that medicine has played in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in constructing and deconstructing the self and other, including the fusion of visual objectivity and the scientific gaze in constructing perceptions of humanity. Part 3 looks at the limits of medicine when the integrity of one body breaks down. It contends with the ultimate question of the extent to which humanity is confined within the integrity of the human body, and how medicine and the humanities work together toward responding to the finality of death. This is a valuable contribution for all those interested in the medical humanities, history of medicine, history of ideas and the social approaches to health and illness.

Author : Marc Laureys
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847006274
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Spheres of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe written by Marc Laureys and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is devoted to the spheres in which conflict and rivalries unfolded during the Renaissance and how these social, cultural and geographical settings conditioned the polemics themselves. This is the second of three volumes on 'Renaissance Conflict and Rivalries', which together present the results of research pursued in an International Leverhulme Network. The underlying assumption of the essays in this volume is that conflict and rivalries took place in the public sphere that cannot be understood as single, all-inclusive and universally accessible, but needs rather to be seen as a conglomerate of segments of the public sphere, depending on the persons and the settings involved. The articles collected here address various questions concerning the construction of different segments of the public sphere in Renaissance conflict and rivalries, as well as the communication processes that went on in these spaces to initiate, control and resolve polemical exchanges.

Author : Olivia Weisser
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300200706
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ill Composed written by Olivia Weisser and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in early modern England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britons. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal diaries, medical texts, and devotional literature, this unique cultural history enters the sickrooms of a diverse sampling of men and women, from a struggling Manchester wigmaker to the diarist Samuel Pepys. The resulting stories of sickness offer unprecedented insight into what it was like to live, suffer, and inhabit a body in England more than three centuries ago.

Author : Todd H.J. Pettigrew
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004372849
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Major Works of John Cotta written by Todd H.J. Pettigrew and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the first critical edition of the works of the early modern physician and thinker John Cotta, who boldly called for reform in both medical practice and the prosecution of witchcraft.