Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe

Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe
ISBN-10
9004229205
ISBN-13
9789004229204
Category
History
Pages
800
Language
English
Published
2012-06-22
Publisher
BRILL

Description

Drawing on the methods of a wide range of academic disciplines, this volume shifts the focus of the history of the body, exploring the many different ways in which its physiology and its fluids were understood in pre-modern European thought.

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