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Campbell, Sheila D. - Hall, Bert S. - Klausner, David (eds.), Health, Disease and Healing in Medieval Culture, Nova York - Basingstoke (UK), St. Martin's Press - Macmillan, 1992, xxiv + 204 pp.
- Resum
- This book examines how medieval medical theories were derived from the teachings of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. It maintains that the mystical element was the most attractive branch of medical wisdom and shows how religious rites and observances like prayer and anointing were adapted to medical usage. But while for thinkers like Roger Bacon disease was a fall from grace, there was also a practical approach to illness. The book evaluates medieval recipes for drugs and more mundane notions of disease in the light of the findings of modern medicine. It shows for instance how the concept of "flying venom" relates to modern germ theory.
Contents:
* The disease which we call cancer / Pauline Thompson · 1-11
* The anglo-saxon view of the causes of illness / Audrey L. Meaney · 12-33
* Voigts - Hudson (1992), "«A drynke that men callen dwale ..." · 34-56
* The third instrument of medicine: some accounts of surgery in medieval Iceland / Ian McDougall · 57-83
* Bozóky (1992), "Mythic mediation in healing ..." · 84-92
* Anointing the sick and the dying in christian Antiquity and the early medieval West / Frederick S. Paxton · 93-102
* The healing power of the Hebrew tongue: an example from late 13th century England / Mark Zier · 103-118
* García Ballester (1992), "Changes in the regimina ..." · 119-131
* Scully (1992), "The sickdish in early french ..." · 132-140
* Getz (1992), "To prolong life and promote ..." · 141-151
* The visions of saints Antony and Guthlac / M. L. Cameron · 152-158
* Wortley (1992), "Three not-so-miraculous miracles" · 159-168
* Great figures in Arabic medicine, accoring to Ibn al-Qifṭῑ / Micheau, Françoise · 169-185
* Jacquart (1992), "The introduction of Arabic ..." · 186-195
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
Màgia
Medicina - Farmacologia
Alquímia
Arabisme
- Notes
- Actes del congrés Medieval medicine: the causes of sickness, the secrets of health, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, febrer 1989.
Recensions:
* P. M. Jones, a Social History of Medicine, 6/3 (1993), 440
* Margaret Schleissner, a Isis, 84/2 (1993), 72 
- URL
- https://books.google.es/books?id=memwCwAAQBAJ&lpg=P ...
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