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Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West: A History in Documents

Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West: A History in Documents

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Medicine and Healing in the Pre-Modern West traces the history of medicine and medical practice from Ancient Egypt through to the end of the Middle Ages. Featuring nearly one hundred primary documents and images, this book introduces students and scholars to the words and ideas of prominent physicians and humble healers, men and women, from across Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. Each of the ten chronological and thematic chapters is given a significant historical introduction, in which each primary source is described in its original context. Many of the included source texts are newly translated by the editor, some of them appearing in English for the first time. Key Features The first history of medicine reader to cover both Antiquity and the Middle Ages in a single volume. Nearly one hundred primary sources, including several images. Each topic and reading is accompanied by an introduction from the editor, and explanatory annotations are included throughout to clarify unfamiliar concepts. Significant coverage of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim cultures in the Middle Ages. Many of the primary sources are newly translated, some of them available in English for the first time.
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9781554813902
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Publication date
2019
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
200
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178.00 x 229.00
  • Introduction Chronology Questions to Consider Documents 1. The Earliest Medical Writings of the Near East and Mediterranean (ca.2000-700 BCE) 1. The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus 2. Diagnosis in Ancient Egypt:: The Ebers Papyrus 3. A Babylonian Spell against Fever 4. Plague as Divine Punishment in Homer’s Iliad 5. Gods as the Source of Disease:: Hesiod, Works and Days 6. Violence and Healing in Homeric Greece 2. Medicine and Healing among the Ancient Greeks (ca.500 BCE – 200 CE) Rational Medicine in the Age of Hippocrates 7. Hippocratic Corpus, Nature of Man 8. Plato on the Nature of Disease:: Timaeus 9. Thucydides and the Plague of Athens, 430 BCE 10. Hippocratic Corpus, Aphorisms 11. Hippocratic Corpus, Airs, Waters, and Places 12. Case Histories the Hippocratic Epidemics Asclepius, the God of Physicians 13. The Hippocratic Oath 14. Pindar:: Apollo leaves Asclepius with Chiron the Centaur 15. Celsus celebrates Asclepius as a Man 16. A Greek anatomical votive plaque 17. Aelius Aristides dreams of Asclepius 18. An Egyptian God in Greek Dress in a Hellenistic Papyrus 3. Professional Medicine in the Roman Mediterranean (ca.1-300 CE) 19. Galen, On the Medical Sects 20. Aretaeus the Cappadocian on the Difficult Case of Tetanus 21. Rufus of Ephesus, Medical Questions:: Interrogation of the Patient 22. Celsus:: A Healthy Regimen without Doctors 23. Dioscorides and the Science of Pharmacology 24. Galen, the Boastful Practitioner:: On the Affected Places 25. Galen, On Black Bile:: Praising and Rewriting Hippocrates 26. Herodian on a plague in the Roman Empire 4. Practical Medicine for the Roman Family and Home (ca.100-500 CE) 27. Varro, De re rustica:: An early germ theory? 28. Vegetius, De re militari:: Preserving the Health of Imperial Troops 29. The Legend of Agnodike, a Greek midwife and physician 30. Soranus of Ephesus:: Instructions for Midwives 31. Cato the Elder’s Roman remedies:: Cabbage, Wine, and Magic 32. Pliny the Elder’s homespun medicine:: Remedies derived from Wool 33. Popular medicine in verse:: Liber medicinalis 5. Distilling Classical Medicine in Late Antiquity (ca.300-700 CE) 34. Oribasius:: A Galenic Diet in the Later Roman Empire 35. Anthimus to King Theoderic, On the Observance of Diet 36. A Medieval Primer in Ancient Medicine by St. Isidore of Seville 37. Medicine of Pliny for the Informed Traveler 38. The Herbarius of Apuleius Platonicus 39. Marcellus and His Empirical Handbook of Medicines 40. The Drug Theory of Paul of Aegina 6. Medical Diversity in the Early Middle Ages (ca.600-1000 CE) Monotheism and Medicine 41. The Oath of Asaph, a Jewish Physician’s Oath 42. A Christianized Hippocratic Oath 43. Medicine and Diet in the Rule of St. Benedict 44. Roman Doctors as Christian Saints:: Cosmas and Damian 45. Islamic Medicine of the Prophet:: Sunan Abu Duwud Early Medieval Responses to Plague and Pestilence 46. Evagrius Scholasticus on the Plague of Justinian 47. Gregory of Tours on Epidemic Disease and the Sickness of Kings 48. A Votive Mass against Pestilence Old English Medicine:: Superstition or Empiricism? 49. The Nine Herbs Charm, from the Old English Lacnunga 50. Bald’s Leechbook:: Herbal remedies for eye problems 51. Medical Prognostics in Anglo-Saxon England 7. The Arabic Tradition of Learned Medicine (ca.900-1400 CE) 52. An Introduction to Rational Medicine:: Hunayn ibn Ishaq’s Isagoge 53. Avicenna, The Canon of Medicine 54. Avicenna on Prognosis through Urine 55. Maimonides and Galen on the Meaning of the Pulse 56. Al-Razi, Case Studies in the Spirit of Hippocrates 57. Usamah ibn Munqidh:: A Muslim view of Frankish Medicine 58. Al-Razi on Diagnosis and Treatment for Smallpox and Measles 59. Pilgrim Medicine:: Qust? ibn L?q? on “The Little Dragon of Medina” 60. Ancient Greeks in Later Medieval Prophetic Medicine:: al-Tibb al-nabawi 8. Learned Medicine in High Medieval Europe (ca.1000-1400 CE) Humours, Complexion, and Uroscopy 61. A Clever Duke and a Cleverer Physician in the Tenth Century 62. Constantine the African, Pantegni:: Understanding Complexion 63. Humoural Medicine in Verse:: The Salernitan Regimen of Health 64. A Medieval Urine Wheel 65. Constantine the African with a Urine Glass Explaining Diseases 66. Diagnosing Lovesickness:: Constantine the African’s Medicalized Emotions 67. Platearius on Leprosy in Theory and Practice 68. Guy de Chauliac’s personal experience with the Black Death Observation and Authority 69. Trota of Salerno as a Medical Master 70. Medical Education in High Medieval Europe (Three Accounts) 71. Licenses for Male and Female Surgeons in Medieval Naples 72. A Woman Physician on Trial in Medieval Paris, 1322 9. Medical Practice in the High Middle Ages (ca.1000-1400 CE) Herbalism and Pharmacology 73. Macer Floridus, On the Virtues of Herbs 74. Henry of Huntingdon, Herbalism in The English Garden 75. Matthaeus Platearius:: Rationalizing Simple and Compound Medicines Arabic and Latin Surgery 76. Learned Surgery:: Albucasis on the Treatment of Cataracts 77. Applying Medical Theory to Wound Treatment:: Guy de Chauliac 78. Training and Decorum for the Learned Surgeon Medieval Obstetrics and Gynecology 79. Copho:: Anatomy of the uterus, learned from a pig 80. A Brief Guide to Uroscopy of Women 81. Contraceptives in the Canon of Avicenna 82. St. Hildegard of Bingen:: A Moralized Explanation of Menstruation 83. Trotula:: Treating Retention of the Period in Medieval Italy 84. A Medieval Hebrew Treatise on Difficult Births 10. Medicine and the Supernatural:: Competitors or Partners? (ca.1000-1400 CE) 85. A Doctor and a Saint in Early Salerno 86. The Life of Saint Milburga:: Physicians and Saints, Healing Together? 87. Doctors and Miracles in the Canonization of Lady Delphine 88. Medieval Jewish Magical Medicine 89. Medieval Christian Healing Charms 90. John Arderne, Astrological Instructions for the Surgeon 91. Image:: Astrological Bloodletting Man
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