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McCleery, Iona (ed.), A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages, Londres - Nova York, Bloomsbury (A Cultural History of Medicine [ed. Roger Cooter], 2), 2021, 272 pp.
- Resum
- This volume provides both a survey of the vibrant field of the history of medicine and health during the Middle Ages, and of original research based on interpretation of medieval artifacts and texts relating to healing beliefs and practices. Each expert author focuses on a particular aspect of medieval health, emphasizing human agency, the importance of religious belief, comparisons across time and space, and a diverse range of sources and methodologies. Some of the chapters — especially those on animals and the brain/mind — are amongst the first to incorporate these themes firmly within medieval medicine. The volume sets out ideas, debates, contexts and specific examples relating to disease, diet, the environment, physiology and pathology — especially of brain function, and the theories of the four humors and the six non-naturals — material culture and the archaeology of healing, emotional experience and ways of recording and interpreting it, the role of animals in human medicine — as well as care of animals — and medical authority that were innovative for their time period and exercised great influence for centuries to come. The volume takes a very broad view of what constitutes “medicine,” seeing it as anything that might relate to maintaining or restoring health, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Most of the chapters focus on the late medieval period from the twelfth century, but there is a keen sense of links with ancient medical authority and continuity with the early-modern period.
Contents:
* Introduction: the Cultural History of Health / Iona McCleery
* Chapter 1. Environment: Managing urban sanitation for sanitas / Dolly Jørgensen
* Chapter 2. Food: from healthy regimen to consumption and supply / Iona McCleery
* Chapter 3. Stearns (2021), "Disease: Confronting, Consoling ..."
* Chapter 4. Walker-Meikle (2021), "Animals: Their Use and Meaning in ..."
* Chapter 5. Objects: the Archaeology of Medieval Healing / Gemma L. Watson & Roberta Gilchrist
* Chapter 6. Experiences: Feeling Unhealthy in the Middle Ages / Naama Cohen-Hanegbi
* Chapter 7. Mind/Brain: Medieval Concepts / Wendy J. Turner
* Chapter 8. Authority: Trusting the Text in the Early Middle Ages / F. Eliza Glaze
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Dietètica i higiene
Medicina - Farmacologia
Història de la veterinària
- Notes
- Sumari
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