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Darrera modificació: 2020-01-29
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Nicoud, Marilyn, "Food as a health risk? Medical discourse and dietary practices in the Middle Ages", Médiévales, 69/2 (2015), 149-170.
- Resum
- What would lead us to ask whether a concept of food risk was present in the medical discourse of the late Middle Ages? Although we find no trace of medical expertise regarding food safety in the communal archives, during a time when public authorities tried to set up precautionary measures to control public health, medical texts, and in particular dietary tomes, testify to an ongoing reflection on the dangers posed by food at the individual level. In both scholarly and popular works, authors distinguish medicine from food and from food-medicine, and seek to educate their patients on the necessity of regulating consumption and being aware of the qualities of food. Food, which is essential to life, is used in medieval medicine both therapeutically, and as a means to maintain health. But it is also, potentially, a sanitary risk factor that needs to be designated as such.
- Matèries
- Alimentació
Història de la medicina
Sanejament
Medicina - Dietètica i higiene
- URL
- https://journals.openedition.org/medievales/7601
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