The Healing Arts: Health, Disease and Society in Europe 1500-1800 by Peter Elmer

The Healing Arts: Health, Disease and Society in Europe 1500-1800

Peter Elmer

456 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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The period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment constitutes a vital phase in the history of European medicine. Elements of continuity with the classical and medieval past are evident in the persistence of a humor-based view of the body and of...

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