Lavoisier S.A.S.
14 rue de Provigny
94236 Cachan cedex
FRANCE

Heures d'ouverture 08h30-12h30/13h30-17h30
Tél.: +33 (0)1 47 40 67 00
Fax: +33 (0)1 47 40 67 02


Url canonique : www.lavoisier.fr/livre/autre/the-common-lot-sickness-medical-occupations-and-the-urban-poor-in-early-modern-england-paper/pelling/descriptif_1454239
Url courte ou permalien : www.lavoisier.fr/livre/notice.asp?ouvrage=1454239

0 article 

 Frais de port 0,01€*

Exclusivité web : à partir de 35 euros d’achat, frais de port à 1 centime pour les expéditions vers la France métropolitaine, la Suisse et l’UE avec Colissimo ou GLS

The Common Lot Sickness, Medical Occupations and the Urban Poor in Early Modern England

Langue : Anglais

Auteur :

Couverture de l’ouvrage The Common Lot
This important collection of Margaret Pelling's essays brings together her key studies of health, medicine and poverty in Tudor and Stuart England - including a number published here for the first time. They show that - then as now - health and medical care were everyday obsessions of ordinary people in the Tudor and Stuart era. Margaret Pelling's book brings this vital dimension of the early modern world in from the periphery of specialist study to the heart of the concerns of social, economic and cultural historians.

Introduction.
PART ONE THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
1. Medicine and the Environment in Shakespeare's England.
2. Food, Status and Knowledge: Attitudes to Diet in Early Modern England.
3. Illness among the Poor in Early Modern English Towns.
4. Healing the Sick Poor: Social Policy and Disability in Norwich 1550-1640.
PART TWO AGE GROUPS AND GENDER
5. Child Health as a Social Value in Early Modern England.
6. Old Age, Poverty and Disability in Early Modern Norwich: Work, Remarriage and Other Expedients.
7. Older Women: Household, Caring and Other Occupations in the Late Sixteenth-century Town.
PART THREE OCCUPATIONS
8. Nurses and Nursekeepers: Problems of Identification in the Early Modern Period.
9. Occupational Diversity: Barber-surgeons and other Trades 1550-1640.
10. Trade or Profession? Medical Practice in Early Modern England.

Margaret Pelling
  • Health and medicine are subjects of growing interest to social historians.
  • Provides analysis of the health experience of the majority of the population in this period - artisans, labourers, servants, the poor and women which has tended to be neglected by historians.
  • Contains essays published here for the first time and a substantial introduction and commentary.
  • Broad themes are considered including growing anxiety about health and illness, lay involvement in medicine, the effects of urbanization on the health and the sensitivity of chronic disease as an indicator of social conditions.