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ID no. of Reference	BETA bibid 5634
Format	libro. referencia. impreso
Author	Michael Solomon
Title	Fictions of Well-Being. Sickly Readers and Vernacular Medical Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Place / Publisher	Philadelphia - Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date / Location	2010: páginas xiv, 188
ISBN/ISSN	ISBN: 9780812242553
Note	¿University of Pennsylvania Press?: “From the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries in Spain, health-related information in the vernacular began to circulate widely in treatises, compendiums, manuals, plague tracts, summaries, encyclopedias, and recipe collections. These were often the work of concerned physicians who attempted to refashion medical information to appeal to nonprofessionals. In Fictions of Well-Being Michael Solomon explores the shaping of this audience of sickly readers, highly motivated individuals who, when confronted with the painful, disruptive, and often alienating conditions of physical disorder, looked for relief in books. Vernacular medical writing from late medieval and early modern Spain emerged from the interrelated imperatives to address the immediate or future hygienic and pathological needs of the patient while promoting the reputation and learned credentials of the physician. For sickly readers, a medical treatise was more than just a collection of technical information; such a work implied that they could do with a medical text what the physician normally did at the bedside. In their imagination, the treatise became a type of palpable instrument that encouraged the reader to take advantage of its possible use and benefits. In these fictions of well-being, we may see the antecedents of the self-help and popular medical books so prominent on today's best-seller lists.”
Held by	Madrid: Nacional (BNE) (BNE Cat.)
Source of Data for Works	texid 2810 Estéfano de Sevilla, Libro de visitación y consiliación medicorum, escrito 1381 ad quem?
Record Status	Created 2012-05-03 Updated