@book{20366,
  keywords = {History, England, To 1500, leprosy, Treatment, Social Conditions, Person affected by leprosy, Medicine},
  author = {Rawcliffe C},
  title = {Leprosy in medieval England},
  abstract = {Set firmly in the medical, religious and cultural milieu of the European Middle Ages, this book is the first serious academic study of a disease surrounded by misconceptions and prejudices. Even specialists will be surprised to learn that most of our stereotyped 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; that the decline of leprosy was not monocausal but implied a complex web of factors - medical, environmental, social and legal. Carole Rawcliffe writes with consummate skill, subtlety and rigour; her book will change forever the image of the medieval leper.},
  year = {2009},
  pages = {xii, 421 p.},
  publisher = {Boydell},
  address = {Woodbridge},
  isbn = {9781843834540},
  url = {http://www.boydell.co.uk/43832739.HTM},
  note = {Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents 1 Creating the medieval leper: some myths and misunderstandings 2 The body and the soul: ideas about causation 3 The sick and the healthy: reactions to suffering 4 Priests and physicians: the business of diagnosis 5 Medicine and surgery: the battle against disease 6 A Disease appart? The impact of segregation 7 Life in the medieval leper house},
  language = {eng},
}