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Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine Ser.: Medicine Before the Plague : Practitioners and Their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285-1345 by Michael R. McVaugh (1993, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521412358
ISBN-139780521412353
eBay Product ID (ePID)1393511
Product Key Features
Number of Pages296 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMedicine before the Plague : Practitioners and Their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285-1345
Publication Year1993
SubjectHealth Care Delivery, History, Disease & Health Issues
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Medical
AuthorMichael R. Mcvaugh
SeriesCambridge Studies in the History of Medicine Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.7 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN92-049626
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal610.94655
Table Of ContentList 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.
SynopsisThis 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., 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 brings together the world of medical thought and the actual world shared by patients and practitioners.
LC Classification NumberR557.A7 M38 1993
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