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Duranti, Tommaso (ed.), Medieval Medicine in Medieval Society, Roma, Sapienza Università di Roma (Medicina nei Secoli, 36/1), 2024, pp. 5-162.
- Resum
- This issue focuses on the history of medieval medicine in Western and Latin Europe, but the ensemble may appear lacking on several topics. In fact, none of the authors directly addresses diseases and therapies, nor do they, in some way, center their studies on the medical thinking produced by the great authorities of the past. This absence is the result of a conscious effort to broaden our perspectives, moving away from rigid schemes of a teleological history of medicine – a history of the discipline constructed, willingly or not, as a progressive path towards modern biomedicine. This process is often perceived as a civilizing journey from darkness to light, from primitive to modern, depicted with almost ethnographic colours, and sometimes used to reassure our-selves about our modern medical experience. At other times, these details are uncritically exploited to create controversies about biomedicine and its practitioners (controversies often devoid of any knowledge of the past in the public discourse). In this perspective, the Middle Ages generally occupied – and continues to do so – a ‘negative' place par excellence, a gap between Greco-Roman Antiquity – understood in this context as the dawn of civilization – and the Modern Era, which supposedly introduced the scientific method and, therefore, modernity, considering everything that came before it as childish, obscure, and superstitious.
Contents:
* Introduction: Medieval medicine in medieval society / Tommaso Duranti · 5
* Crisciani (2024), "Medicine and religiosity ..." · 9
* Geltner (2024), "Public health in preindustrial ..." · 27
* Duranti (2024), "Healers: lexicon, functions and ..." · 39
* Bianchi (2024), "Healthcare and medicine in ..." · 63
* Nicoud (2024), "The Western medieval medical ..." · 81
* Cifuentes i Comamala (2024), "Vernacular surgery in the ..." · 103
* Foscati (2024), "Miracle tales as privileged ..." · 133
* Roversi Monaco (2024), "'A closeness to God, to nature ..." · 149
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Metodologia
- Notes
- Dossier monogràfic de la revista Medicina nei Secoli, 36/1 (2024).
- URL
- https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa01/medicina_nei_secoli ...
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