Healers and healing in early modern Italy
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Bibliographic Information
Healers and healing in early modern Italy
（Social and Cultural values in early modern Europe）
Manchester University Press, 1998
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Bibliography: p211-222. - Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. By adopting the point of view of the sick people themselves, it uncovers religious and popular ideas about disease and its causation and cures. The training, preparation and practice of all healers is discussed, against a backdrop of growing attempts by the medical and ecclesiastical elites to limit their activities within bounds considered acceptable.
Table of Contents
- Medical pluralism in the Kingdom of Naples
- the royal protomedicato and public health
- medical practitioners and medical practice
- charlatans and medical secrets
- hospitals, poor relief and health care
- the Church, the Devil and living saints
- illness narratives, miracle cures and the medical community.
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