LEPROSY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.

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"Set firmly in the medical, religious and cultural milieu of the European middle ages, this hook is the first serious academic study of a disease surrounded by misconceptions and prejudices." "Even specialists will be surprised to learn that most stereotypical ideas about the segregation of medieval lepers originated in the nineteenth century; that leprosy excited a vast range of responses, from admiration to revulsion; that in the later middle ages it was diagnosed readily even by laity; that a wide range of treatment was available; that medieval leper hospitals were no more austere than the monasteries on which they were modelled; and that the decline of leprosy was not monocausal but implied a complex web of factors - medical, environmental, social and legal."--Jacket.

subjects: Leprosy,  History,  Treatment,  Patients,  Social conditions,  Medieval Medicine,  Medische aspecten,  Culturele aspecten,  Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,  Medieval History,  Leper Colonies,  Epidemiology,  Religion and Medicine,  Social aspects,  Lepra