The Common Lot: Sickness, Medical Occupations and the Urban Poor in Early Modern England

by Pelling,Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780582231825
• ISBN10: 0582231825
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317892540
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-06-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

An exceptional collection, including three new essays, of Margaret Pelling's key studies on health, medicine and poverty in Tudor and Stuart England. The essays explore the extent to which health, sickness, and medical care were everyday obsessions of people in early modern England.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Urban Environment

Medicine and the Environment in Shakespeare's England

Food, Status and Knowledge: Attitudes to Diet in Early Modern England

Illness among the Poor in Early Modern English Towns

Healing the Sick Poor: Social Policy and Disability in Norwich 1550-1640

Age Groups and Gender

Child Health as a Social Value in Early Modern England

Old Age, Poverty and Disability in Early Modern Norwich: Work, Remarriage and Other Expedients

Older Women: Household, Caring and Other Occupations in the Late Sixteenth-century Town

Occupations

Nurses and Nursekeepers: Problems of Identification in the Early Modern Period

Occupational Diversity: Barber-surgeons and other Trades 1550-1640

Trade or Profession? Medical Practice in Early Modern England

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