Rawcliffe, Carole (Author)
This first full-length study of public health in pre-Reformation England challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about the insanitary nature of urban life during "the golden age of bacteria". Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws on material remains as well as archives, it examines the medical, cultural and religious contexts in which ideas about the welfare of the communal body developed. Far from demonstrating indifference, ignorance or mute acceptance in the face of repeated onslaughts of epidemic disease, the rulers and residents of English towns devised sophisticated and coherent strategies for the creation of a more salubrious environment; among the plethora of initiatives whose origins often predated the Black Death can also be found measures for the improvement of the water supply, for better food standards and for the care of the sick, both rich and poor.
...MoreReview Mark Jenner (2016) Review of "Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 144-146).
Review Lori Jones (2016) Review of "Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 435-436).
Review Carmichael, Ann (2015) Review of "Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities". American Historical Review (pp. 313-314).
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Review Whittington, Karl (2015) Review of "Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 171-172).
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