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OverviewThe Sick Child in Early Modern England is a powerful exploration of the treatment, perception, and experience of illness in childhood, from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. At this time, the sickness or death of a child was a common occurrence - over a quarter of young people died before the age of fifteen - and yet this subject has received little scholarly attention. Hannah Newton takes three perspectives: first, she investigates medical understandings and treatments of children. She argues that a concept of 'children's physic' existed amongst doctors and laypeople: the young were thought to be physiologically distinct, and in need of special medicines. Secondly, she examines the family's' experience, demonstrating that parents devoted considerable time and effort to the care of their sick offspring, and experienced feelings of devastating grief upon their illnesses and deaths. Thirdly, she takes the strikingly original viewpoint of sick children themselves, offering rare and intimate insights into the emotional, spiritual, physical, and social dimensions of sickness, pain, and death. Newton asserts that children's experiences were characterised by profound ambivalence: whilst young patients were often tormented by feelings of guilt, fears of hell, and physical pain, sickness could also be emotionally and spiritually uplifting, and invited much attention and love from parents. Drawing on a wide array of printed and archival sources, The Sick Child is of vital interest to scholars working in the interconnected fields of the history of medicine, childhood, parenthood, bodies, emotion, pain, death, religion, and gender. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hannah Newton (Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.50cm Weight: 0.568kg ISBN: 9780199650491ISBN 10: 0199650497 Pages: 262 Publication Date: 19 April 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Medical Perceptions and Treatments 1: Humid Humours: Children's Bodies and Diseases 2: 'Cur'd in a Different Manner': Children's Physic Part II: The Family's Perspective 3: 'With Great Care and Pains': Tending the Sick Child 4: 'Wrackt Betwixt Hopes and Fears': Parents' Emotions Part III: The Child's Experience 5: 'Very Much Eased': Being a Patient 6: 'Ill in My Body, But Well in God': Suffering Sickness Conclusion BibliographyReviewsThis is fine book from a young scholar of the history of medicine. ... There are several novalties in the book's topic and structure which make it praiseworthy. ... This is a thoughtful and reflective book which will be of interest to medical historians and historians of childhood in equal measure. ... this book has much to recommend it to those interested in medicine and social history. Alysa Levene, Local Population Studies What makes Newton's achievement impressive is the skill and determination with which she has investigated a huge range of medical literature to establish her case that children were seen, distinctively, as 'soft and weak, abounding in the humour blood'. ... This is a highly promising debut. Anthony Fletcher, History The Sick Child is a major contribution to the histories of childhood, the family, parentchild relationships, religion and medical care. Hannah Newton writes with impressive clarity and sensitivity, forging a powerful argument that children were recognised in medical treatises as distinct from adults. Joanne Bailey, Women's History Review Newton offers an innovating approach to the history of patients. ... With her courageous book Newton enriches academic discussion in the field of the history of patients, childhood and emotions. ... Newton's writing style is easy to understand, clear in the argumentation and a pleasure to read. Iris Ritzmann, Social History of Medicine a consistently interesting study that creatively brings together the history of childhood, medicine, emotions, the body and religion in England from late Elizabethan to early Georgian times. Martin Ingram, English Historical Review The Sick Child is a major contribution to the histories of childhood, the family, parentchild relationships, religion and medical care. Hannah Newton writes with impressive clarity and sensitivity, forging a powerful argument that children were recognised in medical treatises as distinct from adults. Joanne Bailey, Women's History Review What makes Newton's achievement impressive is the skill and determination with which she has investigated a huge range of medical literature to establish her case that children were seen, distinctively, as 'soft and weak, abounding in the humour blood'. ... This is a highly promising debut. Anthony Fletcher, History The Sick Child is a major contribution to the histories of childhood, the family, parentchild relationships, religion and medical care. Hannah Newton writes with impressive clarity and sensitivity, forging a powerful argument that children were recognised in medical treatises as distinct from adults. Joanne Bailey, Women's History Review Newton offers an innovating approach to the history of patients. ... With her courageous book Newton enriches academic discussion in the field of the history of patients, childhood and emotions. ... Newton's writing style is easy to understand, clear in the argumentation and a pleasure to read. Iris Ritzmann, Social History of Medicine This is fine book from a young scholar of the history of medicine. ... There are several novalties in the book's topic and structure which make it praiseworthy. ... This is a thoughtful and reflective book which will be of interest to medical historians and historians of childhood in equal measure. ... this book has much to recommend it to those interested in medicine and social history. Alysa Levene, Local Population Studies What makes Newton's achievement impressive is the skill and determination with which she has investigated a huge range of medical literature to establish her case that children were seen, distinctively, as 'soft and weak, abounding in the humour blood'. ... This is a highly promising debut. Anthony Fletcher, History The Sick Child is a major contribution to the histories of childhood, the family, parentchild relationships, religion and medical care. Hannah Newton writes with impressive clarity and sensitivity, forging a powerful argument that children were recognised in medical treatises as distinct from adults. Joanne Bailey, Women's History Review Newton offers an innovating approach to the history of patients. ... With her courageous book Newton enriches academic discussion in the field of the history of patients, childhood and emotions. ... Newton's writing style is easy to understand, clear in the argumentation and a pleasure to read. Iris Ritzmann, Social History of Medicine Author InformationDr Hannah Newton is a social historian of early modern England, specialising in the history of medicine, childhood, and the emotions. She undertook her PhD at the University of Exeter in 2006-2009 on the subject of 'The Sick Child in Early Modern England'. Dr Newton is now based in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, as a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow. Her postdoctoral project is about recovery and convalescence from illness in the early modern period. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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