Main entry:

Henderson, John, 1949 June 12-

Title & Author:

The Renaissance hospital : healing the body and healing the soul / John Henderson.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.

Description:

xxxiv, 458 pages : illustrations, maps

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-440) and index.
Hospitals and the body of the city -- Before the black death: the birth of the clinic -- The Early Renaissance: medicine for the body and medicine for the soul -- The Late Renaissance: beauty, sickness and the poor -- Healing the soul -- 'To the almighty physician no infirmity is incurable': the role of the hospital church -- 'Splendid houses of treatment built at vast expense': wards and the care of the body and soul -- Serving the poor: the nursing community -- Healing the body -- Treating the poor: doctors and their duties -- 'Antechambers of death'? -- Treating the poor: apothecaries, pills and potions.

Summary:

John Henderson takes us into the Renaissance hospitals of Florence, recreating the enormous barn-like wards and exploring the lives of those who received and those who administered treatment there.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780300109955 (hbk.)
0300109954 (hbk.)

Subject:

Hospitals Italy Florence History To 1500.
Hospitals Italy Florence History 16th century.
Hospitals Italy Florence History 17th century.
Renaissance Italy Florence.
Hospital care.
Medicine, Medieval.
Hospitals history
Hospitalization
History, Medieval
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Renaissance Italie Florence.
Soins hospitaliers.
Médecine médiévale.
44.01 history of medicine.
Ospedali Storia Sec. 13.-16.
Hospitals.
Renaissance.
Histoire médiévale Italie.
Seele
Heilung
Körper
Ziekenhuizen.
Soins hospitaliers Italie Florence (Italie) Moyen âge.
Médecine médiévale Italie Florence (Italie)
Soins hospitaliers Italie Florence (Italie) Renaissance.
Hospital.
Italy
Italy Florence.
Florenz
Italië.

Form/genre:

Student Collection.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253060
Call No.: BIB 182736
Status: Available