Misery to Mirth (Record no. 64129)
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Newton, Hannah, |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Misery to Mirth |
| 246 ## - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | Recovery from Illness in Early Modern England |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Oxford, UK |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Oxford University Press |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading. It implies that people fell ill, took ineffective remedies, and died. This book seeks to rebalance and brighten our overall picture of early modern health by focusing on the neglected subject of recovery from illness in England, c.1580:1720. Drawing on an array of archival and printed materials, Misery to Mirth shows that recovery did exist conceptually at this time, and that it was a widely reported phenomenon. The book takes three main perspectives: the first is physiological or medical, asking what doctors and laypeople meant by recovery, and how they thought it occurred. This includes a discussion of convalescent care, a special branch of medicine designed to restore strength to the patient’s fragile body after illness. Secondly, the book adopts the viewpoint of patients themselves: it investigates how they reacted to the escape from death, the abatement of pain and suffering, and the return to normal life and work. At the heart of getting better was contrast—from ‘paine to ease, sadnesse to mirth, prison to liberty, and death to life’. The third perspective concerns the patient’s loved ones; it shows that family and friends usually shared the feelings of patients, undergoing a dramatic transformation from anguish to elation. This mirroring of experiences, known as ‘fellow-feeling’, reveals the depth of love between many individuals. Through these discussions, the book opens a window onto some of the most profound, as well as the more prosaic, aspects of early modern existence, from attitudes to life and death, to details of what convalescents ate for supper and wore in bed. |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Convalescence |
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| Uncontrolled term | Cure |
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| Uncontrolled term | Heal |
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| Uncontrolled term | Patient |
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| Uncontrolled term | Recovery |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29613/1/misery%26mirth.pdfhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29613">https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29613/1/misery%26mirth.pdfhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29613</a> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | E-Book |
| Withdrawn status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Directory of Open Access Books | Directory of Open Access Books | 11/28/2022 | 11/28/2022 | 11/28/2022 | E-Book |