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The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was like in pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves.Porter, Roy is the author of 'Patients and Practitioners Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-Industrial Society' with ISBN 9780521530613 and ISBN 052153061X.
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