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 Wallis, Faith, Medieval Medicine: A Reader, Toronto, University of Toronto Press (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures), 2010, xxvii + 563 pp., il. 
ResumMedical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to students and scholars. The Reader includes 21 illustrations and a glossary of medical terms. Faith Wallis is Associate Professor, Department of History/Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.
 Table of Contents:
 
 Introduction
 
 Part 1. Medicina: Healers and Healing in Early Medieval Europe (500-1100)
 
 Chapter 1. The Fragmented Heritage of Ancient Medicine
 I. The Alexandrian Curriculum in Latin Dress
 1. Isidore of Seville: the Canon of Medicine
 2. The Old Latin Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates
 3. Teaching the Alexandrian Curriculum in Ostrogothic Italy: Agnellus of Ravenna's Commentary on Galen's On Sects
 4. An Early Medieval Summary of Medical Theory: Wisdom of the Art of Medicine
 II. Medical Practices in a Changing World
 5. An Encyclopedia of Practical Medicine from the Age of Justinian: Alexander of Tralles
 6. Galen Enlarged for Practice: pseudo-Galen, Liber tertius on Pneumonia and Pleurisy
 7. Echoes of Methodism: "Aurelius" on Rabies
 8. Medical Self-Help for the Gentleman Traveler: the Medicine and Natural Remedies of "Pliny"
 9. A Late Antique Estate-Holder's Manual of Home Remedies
 10. The Doctor as Connoisseur of Pulses and Urines
 11. Prognosis and Prophecy: The Ivory Casket and the Signs of Impending Death
 
 Chapter 2. Christianity, Disease, and Medicine
 I. Saints as Healers
 12. A Sixth-Century Byzantine Saint Dispenses Medical Advice: Theodore of Sykeon
 13. The Medical World of Gregory of Tours: Plagues, Doctors, and Saints
 14. A Reluctant Bishop-Healer: John of Beverley
 15. A Carolingian Therapeutic Passion of Saints Cosmas and Damian
 II. Rituals of Healing
 16. St Sigismund, Patron of Sufferers from Fever
 17. "Prayers to the Earth and all Herbs"
 
 Chapter 3. Medicine in Early Medieval Courts and Cloisters
 I. The Doctor at Court
 18. The Court Physician in Ostrogothic Italy
 19. Dietary Advice for a Merovingian King
 20. Alcuin on the Doctors at Charlemagne's Court
 II. Monastic Medicine in the Early Medieval West
 21. The Care of the Sick at the Monastery of Vivarium
 22. Medical Injunctions in the Rule of St Benedict
 23. A Monastic Defense of Medicine against Rigorist Critics: the Lorsch Leechbook
 24. The Plan of St Gall: Medical Facilities within an Ideal Monastery
 25. Medicine, Morality, and Meditation in a Monastic Herb-Garden: Walahfrid Strabo's The Little Garden
 III. The Medical Networks of Missionaries and Bishops
 26. Medical Networks of Eighth-Century Anglo-Saxon Missionaries
 27. Bishop Pardulus of Laon dispenses Medical Advice
 28. Elias of Jerusalem sends a Prescription to King Alfred of Wessex
 29. Letters of Medical Advice from Bishop Fulbert of Chartres and his Circle
 
 Chapter 4. A Regional Case Study: Medicine in Anglo-Saxon England
 30. Bald's Leechbook and Leechbook III
 
 Part 2. Physica: The Advent and Impact of Academic Medicine (1100-1500)
 
 Chapter 5. Salerno: Medicine's "Theoretical Turn" and the Rationalization of Practice
 31. Tenth-Century Medicine: The Testimony of Richer of Rheims
 32. Constantine the African: The Romance of Translating Arabic Medicine
 33. Medical Theory and the Formation of the Articella (1): The Isagoge of Joannitius
 34. Medical Theory and the Formation of the Articella (2): Bartholomaeus of Salerno Comments on the Isagoge
 35. Salernitan Anatomy: The Second Salernitan Demonstration.
 36. The Practice of Pharmacy Rationalized: Circa Instans, the Antidotarium Nicolai, and its Commentary
 37. The Practice of Therapeutics Rationalized: The Practice of Medicine by Bartholomaeus of Salerno
 38. The Practice of Surgery Rationalized: The Surgery of Roger Frugard
 39. The Salernitan Tradition of Gynecology: The Trotula
 
 Chapter 6. Via scolaris: Medicine in the University
 I. Faculties and Curricula
 40. From Philosophy to Physic: Paris from the Late Twelfth Century to the Late Thirteenth Century
 41. Montpellier and the "New Galen"
 42. The "University of Arts and Medicine" at Bologna
 II. Medical Scholasticism in Action: Authoritative Texts and Academic Commentaries
 43. Is Medicine a Science? (1) Avicenna and his Commentator Gentile of Foligno
 44. Is Medicine a Science? (2) Arnau of Vilanova Argues that Medicine Transcends Theory
 45. Is Medicine a Science? (3) Henri of Mondeville on Progress in Medicine
 46. The Scholastic quaestio: Aristotle vs Galen on the Generation of the Embryo
 47. Academic Dissection as "Material Commentary" (1): Mondino de'Liuzzi
 48. Academic Dissection as "Material Commentary" (3:) Anatomical Illustration
 49. Scholastic Medicine Popularized: Bartholomaeus Anglicus
 
 Chapter 7. Theory and Practice in Scholastic Medicine
 50. Signs and Diagnosis (1): Gilles of Corbeil on Urines
 51. Signs and Diagnosis (2): Epitome on Pulses
 52. Causes: The Case of Epilepsy
 53. Scholastic Therapeutics (1): Rhazes, Book for Almansor
 54. Scholastic Therapeutics (2) John of Gaddesden on Smallpox
 55. Scholastic Pharmacology: Bernard of Gordon
 56. A Primer on Bloodletting (1): Lanfranc of Milan
 57. A Primer on Bloodletting (2): The "Sign Man"
 58. Is Surgery a Science? (1): Lanfranc of Milan Defends the Intellectual Dignity of Surgery
 59. Is Surgery a Science? (2): Henri of Mondeville's Defence of the Scientific Credentials of Surgery
 60. Is Surgery a Science? (3): Guy of Chauliac's History of Surgery
 61. A Surgical Sampler (1): Guy of Chauliac on the Treatment of Wounds
 62. A Surgical Sampler (2): Teodorico Borgognoni and the New Surgical Diseases
 63. A Surgical Sampler (3): Ophthalmic Surgery
 64. A Surgical Sampler (4): Surgical Anesthesia?
 
 Chapter 8. Contested Frontiers of Scholastic Medicine: Medical Astrology and Medical Alchemy
 65. Panacea or Problem? (1): The Case for Medical Astrology
 66. Panacea or Problem? (2): Jacques Despars's Reservations about Medical Astrology
 67. Roger Bacon: Alchemy and the Medical Payoff of "Experimental Science"
 68. Bisticius: A Florentine Goldsmith and Medical Alchemist.
 
 Part 3. Medicine and Society (1100-1500)
 
 Chapter 9. What is Disease? What is Illness? Doctors' Dilemmas and the Meaning of Suffering
 69. Interpreting Symptoms: The Difficult Case of Leprosy
 70. Metaphor and Malignancy: The Difficult Case of Cancer (1): Jean of Tournemire Diagnoses his Daughter's Breast Cancer and Receives Divine Medical Aid
 71. Metaphor and Malignancy: The Difficult Case of Cancer (2): Guillaume Boucher Treats a Parisian Lady with Breast Cancer
 72. The Enigma of Mental Illness: Hugo van de Goes's Mental Illness, and the Painter's Allegory of Melancholy
 73. Prophecy and Healing: the Meaning of Illness According to Hildegard of Bingen
 
 Chapter 10. Who Can Help? Physicians, "Empirics", and the Spectrum of Practitioners
 74. Should Clergy and Monks Practice Medicine?
 75. The Faculty of Medicine of Paris vs Jacopa Felicie
 76. The Faculty of Medicine of Paris vs Jean Domremi
 77. Jewish Doctors: The Case of Provence
 
 Chapter 11. What Can They Do? Clinical Encounters in Medieval Europe
 78. The Doctor at the Bedside: Precept (1): Archimatthaeus, Visting the Sick
 79. The Doctor at the Bedside: Precept (2): Arnau of Vilanova, On the Precautions that Physicians must Observe
 80. The Doctor at the Bedside: Practice Illustrated by Guillaume Boucher
 81. Tried and True: Medical Experimenta ("Proven Remedies") by Arnau of Vilanova
 82. Customized Therapeutics: The Medieval Medical Consilium (1): Abbot Peter the Venerable of Cluny Consults Master Bartholomaeus of Salerno
 83. Customized Therapeutics: the Medieval Medical Consilium (2): Gentile of Foligno
 84. The Special Challenges of Plague (1): The Report of the Paris Medical Faculty
 85. The Special Challenges of Plague (2): Guy of Chauliac on the Black Death
 86. The Special Challenges of Plague (3): John of Burgundy
 
 Chapter 12. The Ethics of Medical Care 1: Conscience and the Law
 87. Professional Character in the Early Middle Ages: Variations on Hippocratic Themes
 88. Ethics of Care in the Early Middle Ages: Christian Reflections
 89. Professional Conduct in the Later Middle Ages: From Character to Code
 90. Licensing and Accountability (1): Malpractice in Crusader Palestine
 91. Licensing and Accountability (2): Legislation Governing Doctors in the Thirteenth-Century Kingdom of Sicily
 92. Licensing and Accountability (3): Examining and Supervising Practitioners in Valencia
 93. John Arderne's Advice on how to determine the Fee, and Other Matters of Medical Etiquette
 
 Chapter 13. The Ethics of Medical Care 2: Hospitals and the Provision of Charity
 94. The Organization and Ethos of a Medieval Hospital (1): The Jerusalem Hospital
 95. The Organization and Ethos of a Medieval Hospital (2): The Hôtel-Dieu in Paris
 96. The Organization and Ethos of a Medieval Hospital (3): A Twelfth-Century English Leper Hospital
 97. Medical Care in a Medieval Hospital (1): The Jerusalem Hospital
 98. Medical Care in a Medieval Hospital (2): John of Mirfield at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London
 
 Chapter 14. The Cultivation of Health: Lifestyle, Regimen, and the Medical Self
 99. Lifestyle Advice for All (1): The Salerno Regimen of Health
 100. Lifestyle Advice for All (2): Aldobrandino of Siena on Health throughout the Life Cycle
 101. Lifestyle Advice, Customized (1): the Army on Campaign
 102. Lifestyle Advice, Customized (2): a Physician of Valencia advises his Sons, who are studying in Toulouse
 103. Medicalizing the Table and the Home: the Tacuinum sanitatis
 104. Medicalizing Sex: Constantine the African.
 
 Chapter 15. Satires and Critiques of Medicine
 105. Dr Galen and Burnel the Ass
 106. Petrarch Lashes Out against the Doctors
 107. The Doctor as Comic Relief in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament
 
 Glossary
 
 Index
MatèriesMedicinaAntologia
 Lèxic
NotesFitxa de l'editor: http://www.utppublishing.com/Medieval-Medicine-A-Re ...  Recensions:
 * Maud Kozodoy, The Medieval Review, 11.04.07, en accés lliure a http://hdl.handle.net/2022/13205
  URLhttp://books.google.com/books?id=V0vfL9CeEA4C  Conté traduccions de| 1. | Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (c. 809 – 873/877), Isagoge ad Tegni Galieni, Adaptador: Constantí l'Africà (1017 – a. 1098/1099) [anglès], pp. 140-156. Completa. Observacions: A partir de l'ed. de Maurach 1978
 |  | 2. | Arnau de Vilanova (c. 1240 – 1311), Repetitio super aphorismo Hippocratis «Vita brevis» [anglès], pp. 211-220. Fragmentària. Observacions: Reprodueix la traducció parcial de McVaugh i García Ballester.
 |  | 3. | Pseudo-Arnau de Vilanova, Breviarium practice [anglès], pp. 264-265. Fragmentària. Observacions: Capítol 22.
 |  | 4. | Pseudo-Arnau de Vilanova, De cautelis medicorum [anglès], pp. 393-396 Observacions: Rreprodueix la traducció de Sigerist.
 |  | 5. | Arnau de Vilanova (c. 1240 – 1311), Experimenta [anglès], pp. 401-405 Observacions: Traducció de Faith Wallis a partir de l'edició parcial de McVaugh (1971), "The Experimenta of Arnald of ..."
 |  | 6. | Arnau de Vilanova (c. 1240 – 1311), Regimen Almarie [anglès], pp. 501-503. Completa. Observacions: Traducció de Faith Wallis de McVaugh (1992), "Arnald of Villanova's Regimen ...".
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