Health, sickness, medicine and the friars in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
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Health, sickness, medicine and the friars in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
(The history of medicine in context)
Routledge, 2017
- : pbk
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  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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-294) and index
"First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries explores the attitudes and responses of the mendicant orders to illness, their contribution to medical history, the influence of health and sickness as a factor in the orders' decision making, the extent of their participation in treatments, their relationship with physicians or their own involvement in medical practice, and the problems which occurred as a result of these matters. Apart from brief details of the last illness noted in some convent obituaries, the sick friar is usually conspicuous by his absence from the records. This book addresses this absence. By focusing on these neglected aspects of the mendicant orders it is possible to begin to reconstruct their attitudes and practices towards sickness, health and medical treatment. In so doing, a picture begins to emerge which provides a much fuller understanding of both mendicant and wider medical history. Through such an approach, the book demonstrates how preserving health as well as treating illness were matters of interrelated and vital concern to the friars, a concern that coincided with a rising interest in health matters in wider society during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- Fit to preach and pray: health, sickness and the friars' vocation
- Pro salute: the convent and infirmary environment
- In operibus pietatis: the infirmarers, their duties and equipment
- Omnia computare: the patients, standards of care and finance
- Dangers and disorders: the decline of the frater medicus
- Let us honour the physicians: secular medical practitioners
- Quod curabit?: the plague outbreaks
- Strengthening nature: food for the healthy and the sick
- The hand of Christ: drugs for the sick friar
- Cures of other ills: surgical and ancillary treatments
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.
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