Bodies of knowledge : cultural interpretations of illness and medicine in medieval Europe
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Bodies of knowledge : cultural interpretations of illness and medicine in medieval Europe
(BAR international series, 2170 . Studies in early medicine ; 1)
Archaeopress, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references
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Six papers which reassess medieval medicine. Contents: Rage Possession: A Cognitive Science Approach to Early English Demon Possession (Kirsten C. Uszkalo); Outlawry and Moral Perversion in Old Norse Society (Anne Irene Riis); Hermaphroditism in the western Middle Ages: Physicians, Lawyers and the Intersexed Person (Irina Metzler); The nadir of Western Medicine? Texts, contexts and practice in Anglo-Saxon England (Sally Crawford); This should not to be shown to a gentile: MedicoMagical Texts in Medieval Franco-German Jewish Rabbinic Manuscripts (Ephraim Shoham-Steiner); Asclepius, Biographical Dictionaries, and the transmission of science in the Medieval Muslim World (Keren Abbou Hershkovits).
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