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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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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