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Health and Society in Early Modern Sweden / ed. by Mari Eyice, Charlotta Forss.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability ; 10Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048557523
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 613 23/eng/20240301
LOC classification:
  • RA776.9
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Meanings of Health in Early Modern Sweden -- 2. Illness as Incapacity to Work in Early Modern Sweden -- 3. The Body in the Bathhouse: Health and Bathing in Early Modern Sweden -- 4. ‘Somewhat Heated, Quick and Lively’ : Humoral Explanations of the Learning Difficulties of Charles XI of Sweden (1655–1697) -- 5. Health in Body and Soul in a Female Birgittine Convent 1516–1522 -- 6. Curing Madness and Mental Disturbances : Religious Healing Activities in Early Modern Swedish Local Communities -- 7. Not Quacks but Close : Reappraising the Role of Physicians on the Eighteenth-Century Medical Market -- 8. Gender, Health, and Hair in Sweden, 1740–1840 -- 9. Gender Norms and Early Modern Healthcare : Barber-Surgeons in Sweden c. 1600–1900 -- Epilogue : Epistemologies of Body and Soul: Considering the Early Modern and (Late) Modern History of Health -- Index
Summary: The understanding of what health is and how it can be maintained has changed through history. Questions like who can perform healing? and what sort of bodies are considered healthy? have elicited widely divergent responses in different societies. This volume explores how health was understood and practiced in the early modern Nordic region, with a focus on Sweden, including Finland. The chapters examine topics such as the dyslexia of Charles XI, lay perceptions of bodily and mental variability, and the health benefits attributed to using the sauna. Together, the essays give a holistic view of how practices of health evolved in close symmetry with societal institutions and localised worldviews. As such, the volume is a timely intervention into the social history of medicine, contributing to the historicisation of health as a concept and shedding light on developments in the Nordic world.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Meanings of Health in Early Modern Sweden -- 2. Illness as Incapacity to Work in Early Modern Sweden -- 3. The Body in the Bathhouse: Health and Bathing in Early Modern Sweden -- 4. ‘Somewhat Heated, Quick and Lively’ : Humoral Explanations of the Learning Difficulties of Charles XI of Sweden (1655–1697) -- 5. Health in Body and Soul in a Female Birgittine Convent 1516–1522 -- 6. Curing Madness and Mental Disturbances : Religious Healing Activities in Early Modern Swedish Local Communities -- 7. Not Quacks but Close : Reappraising the Role of Physicians on the Eighteenth-Century Medical Market -- 8. Gender, Health, and Hair in Sweden, 1740–1840 -- 9. Gender Norms and Early Modern Healthcare : Barber-Surgeons in Sweden c. 1600–1900 -- Epilogue : Epistemologies of Body and Soul: Considering the Early Modern and (Late) Modern History of Health -- Index

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The understanding of what health is and how it can be maintained has changed through history. Questions like who can perform healing? and what sort of bodies are considered healthy? have elicited widely divergent responses in different societies. This volume explores how health was understood and practiced in the early modern Nordic region, with a focus on Sweden, including Finland. The chapters examine topics such as the dyslexia of Charles XI, lay perceptions of bodily and mental variability, and the health benefits attributed to using the sauna. Together, the essays give a holistic view of how practices of health evolved in close symmetry with societal institutions and localised worldviews. As such, the volume is a timely intervention into the social history of medicine, contributing to the historicisation of health as a concept and shedding light on developments in the Nordic world.

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