Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List Of Figures And Tables
- Introduction: Geriatrics Today and Yesterday
- 1 The Knowledge of the Ancients: Ancient and Medieval Accounts of Old Age and Their Importance for Early Modern Europe
- 2 Between Elderly Care and Life Extension: Galenic Gerocomies to the mid-Seventeenth Century
- 3 Old Age in the Early Modern University: The Eclecticism of Medical Concepts after 1650
- 4 Old Women: The Marginalization of a Majority
- Conclusion: Proto-Geriatrics between Tradition and Innovation
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
List Of Figures And Tables
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List Of Figures And Tables
- Introduction: Geriatrics Today and Yesterday
- 1 The Knowledge of the Ancients: Ancient and Medieval Accounts of Old Age and Their Importance for Early Modern Europe
- 2 Between Elderly Care and Life Extension: Galenic Gerocomies to the mid-Seventeenth Century
- 3 Old Age in the Early Modern University: The Eclecticism of Medical Concepts after 1650
- 4 Old Women: The Marginalization of a Majority
- Conclusion: Proto-Geriatrics between Tradition and Innovation
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Chapter
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- Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014