Health and Wellness in the Renaissance and Enlightenment

Examining a 300-year period that encompasses the Scientific Revolution, this engrossing book offers a fresh and clearly organized discussion of the human experience of health, medicine, and health care, from the Age of Discovery to the era of the French Revolution.

• Photographs and illustrations from medical texts and other works of the period

• A glossary of technical, cultural, and historical terms

• A bibliography of modern and period resources