Patients and Practitioners: Responding to Illness in Early Modern Europe 1450-1750

Module code: HS7034

In this module, you'll learn about the history of medicine and healing in early modern Europe - a time that saw major improvements in surgery, the beginning of toxicology, neurology and microbiology as scientific fields and advancements in our knowledge of human anatomy.

Additionally, as there are many different historical and theoretical approaches to this area of study, you'll learn how to distinguish between these during this module.