A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Second edition.

Mary Lindemann is Professor of History at the University of Miami. Her publications include Health and Healing in Early Modern Germany (1996) which was awarded the 1998 William Welch Book Medal Prize by the American Association for the History of Medicine.

Introduction; 1. Sickness and health; 2. Plagues and peoples; 3. Learned medicine; 4. Learning to heal; 5. Hospitals and asylums; 6. Health and society; 7. Healing; Conclusion; Further reading.