When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
The Sick Child in Early Modern England, 1580–1720
by Hannah Newton
Oxford University Press, 2012. First Edition, First Impression.
HARDCOVER
A scholarly study of childhood illness in early modern England, examining how sick children were understood, treated and cared for between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Newton approaches the subject through the perspectives of physicians, families and children themselves, exploring early medical treatments, parental care and emotions, pain, religion, death and children’s own experiences of illness.
An important academic work spanning British social history, the history of childhood and the history of medicine. Oxford lists the book within Early Modern History, History of Medicine and Social & Cultural History.
Condition: Very good pre-owned condition. Hardcover and dust jacket present very well with only light shelf wear visible. Very clean book. Please see photographs for full condition.
