Physick and the Family: Health, Medicine and Care in Wales, 1600–1750

Awards:   Short-listed for The Longman / History Today Book of the Year 2013 (UK) Shortlisted for Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award 2013. Winner of European Association for the History of Health and Medicine book prize 2013 (France) Winner of European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Book Prize 2013.
Author:   Alun Withey ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
ISBN:  

9780719091254


Pages:   260
Publication Date:   30 November 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Physick and the Family: Health, Medicine and Care in Wales, 1600–1750


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Awards

  • Short-listed for The Longman / History Today Book of the Year 2013 (UK)
  • Shortlisted for Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award 2013.
  • Winner of European Association for the History of Health and Medicine book prize 2013 (France)
  • Winner of European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Book Prize 2013.

Overview

Physick and the family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales. Newly available in paperback, this first ever monograph of early modern Welsh medicine utilises a large body of newly discovered source material. Using numerous approaches and methodologies, it makes a significant contribution to debates in medical history, including economies of knowledge, domestic medicine and care, material culture and the rural medical marketplace. Drawing on sources from probates to parish records, diaries to domestic remedy collections, Withey offers new directions for recovering the often obscure medical worldview of the 'ordinary' person.This innovative study will appeal to anyone interested in the social history of the early modern period. Its multi-disciplinary approach will appeal to a broad spectrum of academics and scholars, and will enhance a range of courses and modules both in medical history and in social history more widely. -- .

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Author:   Alun Withey ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.331kg
ISBN:  

9780719091254


ISBN 10:   071909125
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   30 November 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Alun Withey's first book is a wide-ranging and spirited, yet also rounded and original contribution to the social history of British...Withey has achieved more than enough already in this valuable and often fascinating book.' Robert Allan Houston, Social History of Medicine, vol 25, no 3, 'This very welcome book is brimming full of suggestions setting medical history in a rich new context. It will also give historians of Wales itself and their students plenty to think about, and to argue with. The bibliography is excellent.' Michael Roberts, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2012, 86 'Readers will be impressed by the breadth of Withey's research. His command over a wide range of primary services is admirable' Alun Roberts, Morganwg: The Journal of Glamorgan History, Volume LVI 2012 Short-listed for 2013 the Longman / History Today Book of the Year award -- .


Alun Withey's first book is a wide-ranging and spirited, yet also rounded and original contribution to the social history of British...Withey has achieved more than enough already in this valuable and often fascinating book.' Robert Allan Houston, Social History of Medicine, vol 25, no 3, 'This very welcome book is brimming full of suggestions setting medical history in a rich new context. It will also give historians of Wales itself and their students plenty to think about, and to argue with. The bibliography is excellent.' Michael Roberts, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2012, 86 ‘Readers will be impressed by the breadth of Withey’s research. His command over a wide range of primary services is admirable’ Alun Roberts, Morganwg: The Journal of Glamorgan History, Volume LVI 2012 Short-listed for 2013 the Longman / History Today Book of the Year award -- .


Alun Withey's first book is a wide-ranging and spirited, yet also rounded and original contribution to the social history of British...Withey has achieved more than enough already in this valuable and often fascinating book.' Robert Allan Houston, Social History of Medicine, vol 25, no 3, 'This very welcome book is brimming full of suggestions setting medical history in a rich new context. It will also give historians of Wales itself and their students plenty to think about, and to argue with. The bibliography is excellent.' Michael Roberts, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2012, 86 'Readers will be impressed by the breadth of Withey's research. His command over a wide range of primary services is admirable' Alun Roberts, Morganwg: The Journal of Glamorgan History, Volume LVI 2012 Short-listed for 2013 the Longman / History Today Book of the Year award -- .


'Alun Withey's first book is a wide-ranging and spirited, yet also rounded and original contribution to the social history of British...Withey has achieved more than enough already in this valuable and often fascinating book.' Robert Allan Houston, Social History of Medicine, vol 25, no 3, 'This very welcome book is brimming full of suggestions setting medical history in a rich new context. It will also give historians of Wales itself and their students plenty to think about, and to argue with. The bibliography is excellent.' Michael Roberts, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2012, 86 'Readers will be impressed by the breadth of Withey's research. His command over a wide range of primary services is admirable' Alun Roberts, Morganwg: The Journal of Glamorgan History, Volume LVI 2012 -- . Short-listed for 2013 the Longman / History Today Book of the Year award -- .


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Alun Withey is an historian and researcher, and lectures in Early Modern History at the University of Glamorgan and Swansea University.

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