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Sweet, Victoria, "Hildegard of Bingen and the greening of medieval medicine", Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 73/3 (1999), 381-403.
- Resum
- Hildegard of Bingen's fame is on the rise, eight hundred years after her death. In the past two decades, scholarly as well as popular interest in her visions, music, theology, and medicine has taken off, leading to the first recordings of her music, the first translations of her texts, and the first attempts—for better or for worse—to practice “Hildegardian medicine.” During this same period, anthropologists have changed our understanding of medical systems, clarifying their relationship to the sociocultural ecologies from which they arise; recently, historians have begun to apply these insights to Western medicine. This paper introduces Hildegard as an untapped source for our evolving understanding of premodern European medicine. I will begin with an account of her life and work; I will then present an analysis of her medical text in its twelfth-century context, and will conclude with a discussion of her medicine as a praxis that both reflects and expresses the premodern relationship of humans with the natural world.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Biografia
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- URL
- https://muse.jhu.edu/article/4342
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