The tests of this volume offer an historical, unusual perspective in the experience of the disease: they try to reconstruct what is bad (an ailment of smaller importance to the mortal disease) was like in the pre-industrial society from the point of view of the own patients. The authors examine the meaning that is enclosed to the disease, the popular beliefs and the medical practices, the diffusion of the popular medical knowledge, and the relations between the patients and their doctors (as much professional as " marginal") sight from the point of the view patients. This it is an important work, of disease and dominated death the life in the societies previous to an enormous degree. Nevertheless, almost there are studies of this no type never have been carried out before, practically all the previous treatments of to be written from the traditional point of view of the doctor, the hospital, or of medical science. Consequently, it will be the interest of an ample range of readers interested in social history, as well as the history of the medicine in himself.

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