Medicine Before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the EnlightenmentThis book offers an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. These were the elite, in reputation and rewards, and they were successful. Yet we can form little idea of their clinical effectiveness, and to modern eyes their theory and practice often seems bizarre. But the historical evidence is that they were judged on other criteria, and the argument of this book is that these physicians helped to construct the expectations of society--and met them accordingly. |
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Contents
Hippocrates and the philosophers | 9 |
Galen | 34 |
THE LATIN TRADITION | 57 |
Medieval schools | 59 |
Scholastic medicine | 88 |
The weakening of the Latin tradition | 127 |
THE CRISIS | 155 |
The crisis of theory | 157 |
Resolutions | 185 |
Enlightenment systems and science | 222 |
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Medicine Before Science: The Rational and Learned Doctor from the Middle ... Roger Kenneth French No preview available - 2003 |
Medicine Before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to ... Roger French No preview available - 2003 |
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| Title | Medicine Before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment |
| Authors | Roger French, Roger Kenneth French |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0521007615, 9780521007610 |
| Length | 289 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / General History / Europe / Medieval History / Europe / Renaissance History / Social History Medical / History |
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