Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Meanings of Health in Early Modern Sweden
- 2 Illness as Incapacity to Work in Early Modern Sweden
- 3 The Body in the Bathhouse: Health and Bathing in Early Modern Sweden
- 4 ‘Somewhat Heated, Quick and Lively’ : Humoral Explanations of the Learning Difficulties of Charles XI of Sweden (1655–1697)
- 5 Health in Body and Soul in a Female Birgittine Convent 1516–1522
- 6 Curing Madness and Mental Disturbances : Religious Healing Activities in Early Modern Swedish Local Communities
- 7 Not Quacks but Close : Reappraising the Role of Physicians on the Eighteenth-Century Medical Market
- 8 Gender, Health, and Hair in Sweden, 1740–1840
- 9 Gender Norms and Early Modern Healthcare : Barber-Surgeons in Sweden c. 1600–1900
- Epilogue : Epistemologies of Body and Soul: Considering the Early Modern and (Late) Modern History of Health
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Meanings of Health in Early Modern Sweden
- 2 Illness as Incapacity to Work in Early Modern Sweden
- 3 The Body in the Bathhouse: Health and Bathing in Early Modern Sweden
- 4 ‘Somewhat Heated, Quick and Lively’ : Humoral Explanations of the Learning Difficulties of Charles XI of Sweden (1655–1697)
- 5 Health in Body and Soul in a Female Birgittine Convent 1516–1522
- 6 Curing Madness and Mental Disturbances : Religious Healing Activities in Early Modern Swedish Local Communities
- 7 Not Quacks but Close : Reappraising the Role of Physicians on the Eighteenth-Century Medical Market
- 8 Gender, Health, and Hair in Sweden, 1740–1840
- 9 Gender Norms and Early Modern Healthcare : Barber-Surgeons in Sweden c. 1600–1900
- Epilogue : Epistemologies of Body and Soul: Considering the Early Modern and (Late) Modern History of Health
- Index
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- Health and Society in Early Modern Sweden , pp. 5 - 6Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2024