Title Conserving health in early modern culture : bodies and environments in Italy and England / edited by Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey

Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) Series Social Histories of Medicine Social histories of medicine. Contents Cover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Plates; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Color Plates; Introduction Conserving health: the Non-Naturals in early modern culture and society; I A comparative perspective on preventive literature; 1 Regimens, authors and readers: Italy and England compared; II The Non-Naturals and the vulnerable body; 2 'What to expect when you're always expecting': frequent childbirth and female health in early modern Italy; 3 'Ordering the infant': caring for newborns in early modern England 4 'She sleeps well and eats an egg': convalescent care in early modern EnglandIII Airs and places; 5 Neapolitan airs: health advice and medical culture on the edge of a volcano; 6 The afterlife of the Non-Naturals in early eighteenth-century Hippocratism: from the healthy individual to a healthy population; IV Spiritual health and bodily health; 7 Sleep-piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households; 8 English and Italian health advice: Protestant and Catholic bodies; V Spaces, paintings and objects: performing and portraying health 9 Chasing 'good air' and viewing beautiful perspectives: painting and health preservation in seventeenth-century Rome10 Hot-drinking practices in the late Renaissance Italian household: a case study around an enigmatic pouring vessel; Bibliography; Index Summary Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern England and Italy, its ubiquity but also how patterns of healthy living differed in different countries Analysis Comparative history Early modern England Early modern Italy Environment Health Lifestyle Preventive medicine Vernacular medical texts Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 21, 2022) Subject Health -- History -- 16th century Public health -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century Public health -- Italy -- History -- 16th century Public Health -- history Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700. Europe. History of medicine. History. History: earliest times to present day. History: specific events and topics. Humanities. Italy. Medicine. Medicine: general issues. Social and cultural history. Southern Europe. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference. MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine. HISTORY -- Modern -- 18th Century. Public health Health Social conditions Hygiene Gesundheitsvorsorge Public Health Health and Wellbeing. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 16th century Italy -- Social conditions -- 16th century Italy United Kingdom Subject Great Britain Italy Großbritannien Italien Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Cavallo, Sandra, editor. Storey, Tessa, editor. Astbury, Leah, author Newton, Hannah, author ISBN 9781526113498 152611349X 9781526113504 1526113503 1526113473 9781526113474

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