Patients and practitioners : Lay perceptions of medicine in pre-industrial society

The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was like in pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves. The authors examine the meanings th...

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Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1985
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ