Misery To Mirth

Author : Hannah Newton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191084646
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misery to Mirth written by Hannah Newton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading. It implies that people fell ill, took ineffective remedies, and died. Misery to Mirth seeks to rebalance and brighten our overall picture of early modern health by focusing on the neglected subject of recovery from illness in England, c.1580-1720. Drawing on an array of archival and printed materials, Misery to Mirth shows that recovery did exist conceptually at this time, and that it was a widely reported phenomenon. The book takes three main perspectives: the first is physiological or medical, asking what doctors and laypeople meant by recovery, and how they thought it occurred. This includes a discussion of convalescent care, a special branch of medicine designed to restore strength to the fragile body after illness. Secondly, the book adopts the viewpoint of patients themselves: it investigates how they reacted to escape from death, the abatement of pain and suffering, and the return to normal life and work. The third perspective concerns the patient's loved ones; it shows that family and friends usually shared the feelings of patients, undergoing a dramatic transformation from anguish to elation. Through these discussions, the volume shines a light on some of the most profound, as well as the more prosaic, aspects of early modern existence, from attitudes to life and death, to details of what convalescents ate for supper and wore in bed.

Author : Hannah Newton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191826122
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misery to Mirth written by Hannah Newton and published by . This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misery to Mirth aims to change our thinking about health in early modern England. Drawing on sources such as diaries and medical texts, it shows that recovery did exist as a concept, and that it was a widely-reported event. The study examines how patients, and their loved ones, dealt with overcoming a seemingly fatal illness.

Author : Konda Murali
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirth and Misery written by Konda Murali and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirth and Misery is a collection of wonderful novellas. Bittersweet Juices, Forget and Forgive and The Real dreams are novellas in this book. The book is a deep insight into the human's heart and soul. The book will definitely enlighten the readers and it remains a very good experience.

Author : Elbridge Hosmer Sabin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.BB/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magical Man of Mirth written by Elbridge Hosmer Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hannah Newton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019877902X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misery to Mirth written by Hannah Newton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misery to Mirth aims to change our thinking about health in early modern England. Drawing on sources such as diaries and medical texts, it shows that recovery did exist as a concept, and that it was a widely-reported event. The study examines how patients, and their loved ones, dealt with overcoming a seemingly fatal illness.--

Author : Minae Mizumura
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590517830
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inheritance from Mother written by Minae Mizumura and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning novelist Minae Mizumura demystifies the notion of the selfless Japanese mother and the adult daughter honor-bound to care for her. Mitsuki Katsura, a Japanese woman in her mid-fifties, is a French-language instructor at a private university in Tokyo. Her husband, whom she met in Paris, is a professor at another private university. He is having an affair with a much younger woman. In addition to her husband’s infidelity, Mitsuki must deal with her ailing eighty-something mother, a demanding, self-absorbed woman who is far from the image of the patient, self-sacrificing Japanese matriarch. Mitsuki finds herself dreaming of the day when her mother will finally pass on. While doing everything she can to ensure her mother’s happiness, she grows weary of the responsibilities of a doting daughter and worries she is sacrificing her chance to find fulfillment in her middle age. Inheritance from Mother not only offers insight into a complex and paradoxical culture, but is also a profound work about mothers and daughters, marriage, old age, and the resilience of women.

Author : Hannah Newton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199650497
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sick Child in Early Modern England, 1580-1720 written by Hannah Newton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illness in childhood was common in early modern England. Hannah Newton asks how sick children were perceived and treated by doctors and laypeople, examines the family's experience, and takes the original perspective of sick children themselves. She provides rare and intimate insights into the experiences of sickness, pain, and death.

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ISBN 13 : 9781944920166
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Download or read book Parallel Universes of Children written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In honor of World Children's Day, artist Ugur Gallenkus is debuting his first book, Parallel Universes of Children. The book features selections from Gallenkus' ongoing series of collages juxtaposing the starkly different worlds today's children inhabit globally. Parallel Universes of Children, an 11x11-inch, 120-page hardcover volume, contains 52 collages representing children's rights and pairs each artwork with quotes and facts about children's lived realities. Every page of this book bears witness to the lives and plights of children around the world-acknowledging their fears, tears, and pain.

Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
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Download or read book Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bellamy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
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