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Ill composed: sickness, gender, and belief in early modern England

By Olivia , Weisser

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780300200706, 9780300213478, 0300213476
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (15086838 bytes)
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\292
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Diseases;Diseases--England--History--17th century;

Description

In this in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in 17th- and 18th-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal diaries, medical texts, and devotional literature, the author enters the sickrooms of a diverse sampling of early modern Britons. The resulting stories of sickness reveal how men and women of the era viewed and managed their health both similarly and differently, as well as the ways prevailing religious practices, medical knowledge, writing conventions, and everyday life created and supported those varying perceptions.

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