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Montford, Angela, Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, Aldershot, Ashgate (The history of medicine in context), 2004, xiv + [1] + 302 pp.
- Resum
- This book explores the attitudes and responses of the mendicant orders to illness, their contribution to medical history, the influence of health and sickness as a factor in the orders' decision making, the extent of their participation in treatments, their relationship with physicians or their own involvement in medical practice, and the problems which occurred as a result of these matters. Apart from brief details of the last illness noted in some convent obituaries, the sick friar is usually conspicuous by his absence from the records. 'Health, sickness, medicine and the friars ...' addresses this absence. BY focusing on these neglected aspects of the medicant orders it is possible to begin to recontruct their attitudes and practices towards sickness, health and medical treatment. In so doing, a picture begins to emerge which provides a much fuller understanding of both medicant and wider medical history. Through such an approach, 'Health, sickness, medicine and the friars ...' demonstrates how preserving health as well as treating illness were matters of interrelated and vital concern to the friars, a concern that coincided with a rising interest in health matters in wider society during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Contents:
* Fit to preach and pray: health, sickness and the friars' vocation
* Pro salute: the convent and infirmary environment
* In operibus pietatis: the infirmarers, their duties and equipment
* Omnia computare: the patients, standards of care and finance
* Dangers and disorders: the decline of the frater medicus
* Let us honour the physicians: secular medical practitioners
* Quod curabit?: the plague outbreaks
* Strengthening nature: food for the healthy and the sick
* The hand of Christ: drugs for the sick friar
* Cures of other ills: surgical and ancillary treatments
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Església - Ordes religiosos
- Notes
- Explora l'actitud i les respostes dels ordes mendicants a la malaltia, la seua contribució a la medicina, la influència de la salut i la malaltia com a un factor de reglamentació dels ordes, la seua participació en els tractaments, la seua relació amb físics i la seua implicació en la pràctica mèdica, i tots els problemes que s'esdevingueren relatius a aquests punts.
- URL
- http://books.google.es/books?id=YCbUJlZYb0YC&pg=PP4 ...
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