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Can I read Health, Disease, and Healing in Medieval Culture on EtoBox?
Health, Disease, and Healing in Medieval Culture by Sheila Campbell, Bert Hall, David Klausner is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Health, Disease, and Healing in Medieval Culture about?
This volume of studies seeks an anthropological view of medicine and the healing arts as they were situated within the lives of medieval people. Miracle cures and charms as well as drugs and surgery fall within the scope of the authors represented here, as does advice about diet and regimen. As well, the volume looks at wellness and illness in broad contexts, avoiding the tendency of modern medicine to focus on the isolation and definition of pathological states.
Who reads Health, Disease, and Healing in Medieval Culture?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sheila Campbell, Bert Hall, David Klausner
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312047863
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Medical, Social History, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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