Health and Wellness in the 19th Century

Health and Wellness in the 19th Century
ISBN-10
0313385122
ISBN-13
9780313385124
Category
History
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2013-12-09
Publisher
Greenwood
Author
Deborah Brunton

Description

Medicine in the 19th century may strike us as primitive by today's standards, but widespread social change of the era brought about new ideas and practices in health and healing—all described in this engaging book. • Comprehensively describes the major systems of medical theory around the world • Sets medicine into a wider historical context that shows how all systems responded to urbanization and the global spread of disease • Explores the patient's experience of illness and describes the breadth of the available therapeutic options

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