Titlebook: Experiencing Illness and the Sick Body in Early Modern Europe; Michael Stolberg Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publ

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Illness in Everyday Life,itudes by either faith in God or fatalism. Only in modern times, with the Enlightenment, is health said to have assumed its current position at the very top of most people’s scale of personal values. Behind such beliefs is the valid and fruitful insight that health is a historically contingent and c

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Perceptions and Interpretations,hole life appears in a new light. The familiar world seems to falls apart. Across cultures, the experience of severe illness spawns a deep desire for meaning and orientation. Philosophical and religious interpretations of illness, as a divine admonition or a test of piety, for example, or as a chanc

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Dominant Discourse and the Experience of Disease,and society, by prevailing images and notions about the body and its diseases, as well as by the linguistic conventions and practices through which these notions come to be expressed. These notions not only point the way to appropriate diagnosis, prophylaxis, and treatment, offer an orientation, and

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Book 2011Based on thousands of letters written by patients and their relatives and on a wide range of other sources, this book provides the first comprehensive account of how early modern people understood, experienced and dealt with common diseases and how they dealt with them on a day-to-day basis.