Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine

Daniel Schaefer

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Early modern perceptions of old age are dominated by medicine's inability to treat the diseases associated with growing old. This book takes a thematic look at the historical roots of the debate surrounding this process. Though very much a medically-oriented study, this history also covers material of literary, religious and legal derivation. Schafer examines over 160 Latin texts from all over Europe, as well as many in the vernacular - including some from America - to challenge medical conceptions of old age during the early modern period. This is a translated and revised version of Alter und Krankheit in der Frhen Neuzeit: Der rztliche Blick auf die letzte Lebensphase (Campus, 2004).