The Impact of Hospitals: 300-2000 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3039110012 ISBN 13: 9783039110018

Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang, 2007

Synopsis

This is the first wide-ranging collection of articles on the history of hospitals in the Mediterranean, northern Europe, and the Americas for over seventeen years. It brings together fully revised and expanded versions of papers from the first two conferences (1999 University of East Anglia, Norwich; 2001 Verona University) sponsored by the International Network for the History of Hospitals. The collection shows the vigour and variety of the latest scholarly research on these complex institutions. The sixteen contributions present a nuanced approach to the impact of hospitals on society over a very long time period and an exceptional geographical range.

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About the Author

The Editors: John Henderson is Professor of Renaissance History at Birkbeck University of London. His major publications include: Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence (1994, 1997), The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe (with Jon Arrizabalaga and Roger French) (1997), and The Renaissance Hospital: Healing the Body and Healing the Soul (2006).
Peregrine Horden is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway University of London. He is co-author, with Nicholas Purcell, of The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (2000), of which a sequel, Liquid Continents, is in preparation, and author of two forthcoming volumes: The Earliest Hospitals, and Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages. He edited Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy since Antiquity (2000).
Alessandro Pastore is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Verona. Among his recent books are: Il medico in tribunale. La perizia medica nella procedura penale d'antico regime, secoli XVI-XVIII (1998), Alpinismo e storia d'Italia. Dall'Unità alla Resistenza (2003), and Le regole dei corpi. Medicina e disciplina nell'Italia moderna (2006).

Edition details

• Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3039110012
• ISBN 13: 9783039110018
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 426
• Editor: Henderson John, Horden Peregrine, Pastore Alessandro