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Medicine and the Reformation
The tremendous changes in the role and significance of religion during Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation affected all of society. Yet, there have been few attempts to view medicine and the ideas underpinning it within the context of the period and see what changes it underwent....
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
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Land Use Intensification
Effects on Agriculture, Biodiversity, and Ecological Processes
Series: Advances in Agroecology
By 2050, the global population of humans is predicted to increase by 35%. Approximately 70 % more food may be required, and this will take place against a backdrop of 15-40% land degradation. This book examines land use intensification and biodiversity conservation and its impacts. It also...
Published July 25th 2012 by CRC Press
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Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe
The role of religion was of paramount importance in the change of attitudes and approaches to health care and charity which took place in the centuries following the Council of Trent. Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe, examines the effects of the Counter-Reformation on...
Published January 13th 1999 by Routledge
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Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Published June 11th 1997 by Routledge