Medieval medicine: a reader

by Wallis, Faith

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Full title :Medieval medicine : a reader / ed. by Faith Wallis.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Toronto Press
Place of Publication:Toronto
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

Description:XXVII, 563 Seiten : : Illustrationen.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781442601697, 1442601698, 9781442601031, 1442601035
oclc:ocn699598444
LC Classification:R141
Dewey Decimal:610.902

PART ONE: Medicina: Healers and healing in Early Medieval Europe (500 -- 1100) -- 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.

PART TWO: Physica: The advent and impact of academic medicine (1100 -- 1500) -- 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.

PART THREE: Medicine and society (1100-1500) -- What is disease? What is illness? Doctor's 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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geneeskunde Geschichte 500-1500 history of medicine History, Medieval Médecine médiévale Médecine médiévale -- Sources Medicine, Medieval Medicine, Medieval -- Sources Medizin Mittelalter Quelle Sources