The Healing Arts

The Healing Arts
By:Peter Elmer
Published on 2004-03-09 by Manchester University Press

|The book will appeal to students, teachers, health workers and general readers who wish to develop a critical awareness of medicine in the past. The essays are complemented by a selection of primary and secondary readings in the companion volume, Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1800: A Source Book.|--BOOK JACKET.

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