Book 2014

The Sick Child in Early Modern England, 1580-1720

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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014

Sick children
Pediatrics
Children
Care
Health and hygiene
History
Children, health and hygiene
Medical care, great britain

Illness in childhood was common in early modern England. Hannah Newton asks how sick children were perceived and treated by doctors and laypeople, examines the family's experience, and takes the original perspective of sick children themselves.