Health, disease and healing in medieval culture
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Health, disease and healing in medieval culture
Macmillan Academic, 1992
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This volume of studies seeks an anthropological view of medicine and the healing arts as they were situated within the lives of medieval people. Miracle cures and charms as well as drugs and surgery fall within the scope of the authors represented here, as does advice about diet and regimen. As well, the volume looks at wellness and illness in broad contexts, avoiding the tendency of modern medicine to focus on the isolation and definition of pathological states.
Table of Contents
- The disease which we call cancer, Pauline Thompson
- the anglo-saxon view of the causes of illness, Audrey Meaney
- "A drynke that men callen dwale to make a man to slepe whyle men kerven hem" - a surgical anesthetic from late medieval England, Linda.E.Voigts, Robert P.Hudson
- the third instrument of medicine - some accounts of surgery in medieval Iceland, Ian McDougall
- mythic mediation in healing incantations, Edina Bozoky
- anointing the sick and the dying in Christian antiquity and the early medieval west, Frederick Paxton
- the healing power of the Hebrew tongue - an example from late 13th century England, Mark Zier
- changes in the "Regimina Sanitatis" - the role of the Jewish physicians, Luis Garcia-Ballester
- the sickdish in early French recipe collections, Terence Scully
- to prolong life and promote health - baconian alchemy and pharmacy in the English learned tradition, Faye Marie Getz
- the visions of Sts. Antony and Guthlac, M.L.Cameron
- three not-so-miraculous miracles, John Wortley
- great figures in Arabic medicine, accoring to Ibn Al-Qifti, Francoise Micheau
- the introduction of Arabic medicine into the west - the question of etiology, Danielle Jacquart.
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