Explores in detail the efforts made by men and women in late Renaissance Italy to stay healthy and prolong their lives.

Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy explores in detail the efforts made by men and women in late Renaissance Italy to stay healthy and prolong their lives.

Winner of the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize A new history uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medica

Conserving health in early modern culture explores the impact of ideas about healthy living in early modern England and Italy. The attention of medical historia

In Roads to Health, G. Geltner demonstrates that urban dwellers in medieval Italy had a keen sense of the dangers to their health posed by conditions of overcro