Medicine before the plague : practitioners and their patients in the crown of Aragon, 1285-1345
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Bibliographic Information
Medicine before the plague : practitioners and their patients in the crown of Aragon, 1285-1345
(Cambridge history of medicine / editors, Charles Webster and Charles Rosenberg)
Cambridge University Press, 2002
1st pbk. ed
- : pbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  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
Note
Originally published: 1993
Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-265) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book describes the medical world of the early fourteenth century through a study of the extensive archival material and contemporary writings which exist for eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death. It describes the range of medical practice which then existed - a continuum ranging from scattered academic physicians to barbers and empirics - and gives evidence for the levels and numerical growth of these various occupations in early fourteenth-century communities (although it also emphasizes that occupational distinctions were not yet sharply drawn). The newly translated Greco-Arabic medical learning was beginning to spread through this continuum of practice, and the book argues that public enthusiasm for the new learned medicine led to the 'medicalization' of certain social and legal institutions, thus preparing a role for a medical profession in this society before its physicians had shown any consciousness of collective self-interest and identity.
Table of Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The medical history of a royal family
- 2. Medieval health manpower
- 3. The success of medical learning
- 4. A spectrum of practice
- 5. The response to illness and the maintenance of health
- 6. Patient-practitioner relationships
- 7. Medicine's social role
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.
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