Visual arts and medicine in early modern Europe and beyond

Visual arts and medicine in early modern Europe and beyondThis book establishes novel points of connection between European art and medicine in early modernity, opening up new perspectives on the material, social, and theoretical basis of each discipline.

private lives

biographical backgrounds of British visitors to the resorts give depth and context to a history of health and winter sports tourism by looking at the kind of people who would spend months of the year in the Alps

and other public venues

or Ukraine

Asia-Pacific

political thinker

showing the ‘Big Society’ in action in interwar Britain

intensive competition and financial vulnerability

They then address the fundamental dilemmas of nursing practice

global and local inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic

from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914

including the pluralist left