Synopses & Reviews
Medicine in the medieval world is often treated in a static manner as if a single picture of the body, a unitary understanding of disease, and unvarying practices of healing held sway for a millennium. Medieval Medicine: A Reader challenges this view by documenting the change and complexity in medieval medical thinking and practice.
Renowned scholar Faith Wallis has compiled more than 100 unique primary sources that demonstrate how medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. She illustrates a constant process of engagement--rather than rivalry--between medical doctrines, and ideas on the one hand and healing practices (professional, informal, secular, and religious) on the other. The collection contains both core texts, such as the 1348 report of the Paris Medical Faculty on the causes of the plague, as well as lesser known material. Ten illustrations, a glossary of medical terms, a bibliography, and an index are all included.
Synopsis
In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to students and scholars.
Synopsis
Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to students and scholars. The reader includes 21 illustrations and a glossary of medical terms.
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"With helpful introductions that come from long experience teaching on the subject, Faith Wallis's collection will be a boon to any teacher or student engaging for the first time with medieval European medical history." - Monica Green, Arizona State University