Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
by
Prof. Olivia Weisser
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal diaries, medical...