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Leprosy in premodern medicine : a malady of the whole body / Luke Demaitre.
Author
Demaitre, Luke E., 1935-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Description
xv, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
RC154.4 .D46 2007
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Subject(s)
Leprosy
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Europe
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History
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To 1500
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Leprosy
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Europe
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History
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16th century
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Leprosy
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Europe
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History
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17th century
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Medicine, Medieval
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Medicine
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History
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17th century
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Europe
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Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-310) and index.
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.
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ISBN
9780801886133 ((hdbk. ; : alk. paper))
0801886139 ((hdbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2006026074
OCLC
70921424
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