Misery to mirth: recovery from illness in early modern England
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 58654
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198779025
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Misery to Mirth is a 130,000 word monograph that rebalances understanding of early modern health. The book contributes not just to medical history, but to a wide range of fields within social/cultural history. It was researched during a three-year Wellcome postdoctoral position at Cambridge, utilising manuscript sources from 13 archives across the UK, plus 12 electronic databases. In total the book draws on 377 written primary sources, plus a number of extant objects and paintings not listed in the bibliography (including letters, diaries, autobiographies, poetry, eulogies, adverts, court case depositions, extemporal meditations, sermons, philosophical treatises, doctors' casebooks and recipe books.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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