This is the first book to be published on any aspect of medicine in the crusades. It will be of interest not only to scholars of the crusades specifically, but also to scholars of medieval Europe, the Byzantine world and the Islamic world. Focusing on injuries and their surgical treatment, Piers D. Mitchell considers medical practitioners, hospitals on battlefields and in towns, torture and mutilation, emergency and planned surgical procedures, bloodletting, analgesia and anesthesia. He provides an assessment of the exchange of medical knowledge that took place between East and West in the crusades, and of the medical negligence legislation for which the kingdom of Jerusalem was famous. The book presents a radical reassessment of many outdated misconceptions concerning medicine in the crusades and the Frankish states of the Latin East.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521844550
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94512478
Product Key Features
Author
Piers D. Mitchell
Publication Name
Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Medicine
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
236mm
Item Width
176mm
Item Weight
620g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Piers D. Mitchell
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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