A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.

This book takes a thematic look at the historical roots of the debate surrounding old age and disease.

Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this c

This book contains substantial new historical research on medicine in early modern Ireland. Its twelve chapters address a variety of subjects and situate them i

In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explore medical de