Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-Industrial Society

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052153061X
• ISBN13: 9780521530613
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"