Health and Wellness in the Renaissance and Enlightenment

Examining a 300-year period that encompasses the Scientific Revolution, this engrossing book offers a fresh and clearly organized discussion of the human experience of health, medicine, and health care, from the Age of Discovery to the era of the French Revolution. * Photographs and illustrations fr [...]
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Examining a 300-year period that encompasses the Scientific Revolution, this engrossing book offers a fresh and clearly organized discussion of the human experience of health, medicine, and health care, from the Age of Discovery to the era of the French Revolution. * Photographs and illustrations from medical texts and other works of the period * A glossary of technical, cultural, and historical terms * A bibliography of modern and period resources