The Renaissance hospital : healing the body and healing the soul / John Henderson.
Pubblicazione:
New Haven : Yale university press, 2006.
Descrizione fisica:
XXXIV, 458 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of plates. List of figures. List of maps. List of tables. Acknowledgements. A note on currency, weights and measurements. Introduction: The Renaissance hospital in Italy. Pt. 1. Hospitals and the body of the city: 1. Before the black death: the bith of the clinic 2. The early Renaissance: medicine for the body and medicine for the soul 3. The late Renaissance: beauty, sickness and the poor. Pt. 2. Healing the soul: 4. To the almighty physician no infirmity is incurable: the role of the hospital church 5. Splendid houses of treatment built at vast expense: wards and the care of the body and soul 6. Serving the poor: the nursing community. Pt. 3. Healing the body: 7. Treating the poor: doctors and their duties 8. Antechambers of death? 9. Treating the poor: apothecaries, pills and potions. Conclusion. Appendix: Provisional list of hospitals founded in Florence (1000-1550). Notes. Bibliography. Index
Visionato in:
IMSS
ISBN:
0300109954
Discipline:
Medicina--Ospedali e assistenza sociale e sanitaria.
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