The Care of Brute Beasts: A Social and Cultural Study of Veterinary Medicine in Early Modern England: History of Science and Medicine Library, cartea 14
Autor Louise Hill Curthen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 noi 2009
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004179950
ISBN-10: 900417995X
Pagini: 177
Dimensiuni: 160 x 240 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria History of Science and Medicine Library
ISBN-10: 900417995X
Pagini: 177
Dimensiuni: 160 x 240 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria History of Science and Medicine Library
Cuprins
List of illustrations
Introduction
PART I: SETTING THE SCENE
1. Animals in early modern England
2. The principles behind health and illness
PART II: STRUCTURES OF PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE
3. The medical marketplace for animals
4. Popular medical literature
PART III: STRUCTURES OF PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE
5. Preventative medicine
6. Remedial Medicine
Epilogue
Index
Introduction
PART I: SETTING THE SCENE
1. Animals in early modern England
2. The principles behind health and illness
PART II: STRUCTURES OF PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE
3. The medical marketplace for animals
4. Popular medical literature
PART III: STRUCTURES OF PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE
5. Preventative medicine
6. Remedial Medicine
Epilogue
Index
Notă biografică
Louise Hill Curth, PhD in Medical History, Royal Holloway, University of London, is Senior Lecturer in Health at the University of Winchester, England. She has published extensively on early modern popular medical texts for both humans and animals, including English almanacs, astrology and popular medicine: 1550 - 1700 (MUP 2007) and From Physick to Pharmacology: Five hundred years of British drug retailing (Ashgate, 2006).
Recenzii
"The Care of Brute Beasts merits attention from any scholar of animals in early modern Europe. Its focus on the practical care of ordinary livestock, horses, and pets offers a fresh approach to thinking about the ways humans encountered other species in early modern Europe."
Suzanne J. Walker, TulaneUniversity (Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 323-325)
Suzanne J. Walker, TulaneUniversity (Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 323-325)