Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain

David Thorley

earliest edition we have, 2016 Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2016 231 pages

"This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. How did people in the seventeenth century rationalise and record illness? Observing that medical explanations for illness were fewer than may be imagined, the author explores the social and religious frameworks by which illness was more commonly recorded and understood. The story that emerges is of illnes...

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Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain paperback · 2018 · Palgrave Macmillan · 244 pages · 9781349955152
Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain edition · 2016 · Palgrave Macmillan Limited · 231 pages · 9781137593115
Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain edition · 2016 · Palgrave Macmillan · 9781137593122

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