Medieval medicine: a reader
Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to students and scholars. The reader includes 21 illustrations and a glossary of medical terms.
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- Full title :Medieval medicine : a reader / edited by Faith Wallis.
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Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to students and scholars. The reader includes 21 illustrations and a glossary of medical terms.
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- Publication Date:©2010
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Toronto Press
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxvii, 563 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781442690141, 1442690143, 9781442604230, 1442604239
- oclc:ocn892580327
- LC Classification:R141
- Dewey Decimal:610.902
Table of Contents
The fragmented heritage of ancient medicine -- Christianity, disease, and medicine -- Medicine in early medieval courts and cloisters -- A regional case study: medicine in Anglo-Saxon England -- Salerno: medicine's "theoretical turn" and the rationalization of practice -- Via scolaris: medicine in the university -- Theory and practice in scholastic medicine -- Contested frontiers of scholastic medicine: medical astrology and medical alchemy -- What is disease? What is illness? Doctors' dilemmas and the meaning of suffering -- Who can help? Physicians, "empirics," and the spectrum of practitioners -- What can they do? Clinical encounters in medieval Europe -- The ethics of medical care (I): conscience and the law -- The ethics of medical care (2): hospitals and the provision of charity -- The cultivation of health: lifestyle, regimen, and the medical self -- Satires and critiques of medicine.
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