Leprosy in Premodern Medicine: A Malady of the Whole Body by Luke Demaitre
English | 1 edition | June 27, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0801886139 | 344 pages | PDF | 4.6 Mb
While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a "disease of the soul," physicians in the period understood it to be a "cancer of the whole body." In this innovative study, medical historian Luke Demaitre explores medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when judicious diagnosis could spare healthy people from social ostracization and help the afflicted get a license to beg.