Table of Contents: The renaissance hospital :

Main Author:	Henderson, John, 1949-
Corporate Author:	Yale University Press
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Ct. : Yale University Press, c2006
Subjects:	ΝΟΣΟΚΟΜΕΙΑ * > ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ > ΙΤΑΛΙΑ > ΦΛΩΡΕΝΤΙΑ ΑΝΑΓΕΝΝΗΣΗ * > ΙΤΑΛΙΑ > ΦΛΩΡΕΝΤΙΑ ΝΟΣΟΚΟΜΕΙΑ * > ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ > ΙΤΑΛΙΑ ΜΕΣΑΙΩΝΑΣ > ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ > ΙΤΑΛΙΑ Renaissance > Italy > Florence Hospitals > History > Italy > Florence Hospitals > History > Italy

Table of Contents:

Part I: Hospitals and the body of the city
Chapter 1: Before the black death: the birth of the clinic
Chapter 2: The Early Renaissance: medicine for the body and medicine for the soul
Chapter 3: The Late Renaissance: beauty, sickness and the poor
Part II: Healing the soul
Chapter 4: 'To the almighty physician no infirmity is incurable': the role of the hospital church
Chapter 5: 'Splendid houses of treatment built at vast expense': wards and the care of the body and soul
Chapter 6: Serving the poor: the nursing community
Part III: Healing the body
Chapter 7: Treating the poor: doctors and their duties
Chapter 8: 'Antechambers of death'?
Chapter 9: Treating the poor: apothecaries, pills and potions.