Leprosy in premodern medicine

While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a "disease of the soul," physicians in the period understood it to be a "cancer of the whole body." In this innovative study, medical historian Luke Demaitre explores medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when judicious diagnosis could spare healthy people from social ostracization and help the afflicted get a license to beg.

שנה

2007

שפה

English

הוצאה

Johns Hopkins University Press

מהדורות

2

עמודים

323

ISBN

9780801886133

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata