| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 323 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The sources: texts and contexts -- Iudicium leprosorum: medical judgment -- The many labels of leprosy -- Definitions and explanations -- "Une maladie contagieuse et hereditaire" -- Causes, categories, and correlations -- Diagnosis: signs and symptoms -- Prognosis, prevention, and treatment |
| Summary |
While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a "disease of the soul," physicians in the period understood it to be a "cancer of the whole body." In this innovative study, medical historian Luke Demaitre explores medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when judicious diagnosis could spare healthy people from social ostracization and help the afflicted get a license to beg |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-310) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
British Leprosy Relief Association gnd |
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Europa gnd |
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Leprosy -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Leprosy -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
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Leprosy -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
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Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
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Medicine, Medieval.
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Leprosy -- history
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History, 17th Century
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History, Early Modern 1451-1600
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History, Medieval
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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Medicine, Medieval
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Medicine
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Leprosy
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Lepra
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Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631
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Europe |
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Europe
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781435692695 |
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1435692691 |
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9780801891977 |
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0801891973 |
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