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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521524544
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94706632
Product Key Features
Author
Michael R. Mcvaugh
Publication Name
Medicine before the Plague: Practitioners and Their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285-1345
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
300 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
230mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
485g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Michael R. Mcvaugh
Series Title
Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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