Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; PART I Sources; PART II The Latin tradition; PART III The Crisis; Select bibliography; Index
Summary
This book offers an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. While to modern eyes their theory and practice often seems bizarre, the historical evidence is they were judged by other criteria and helped to construct the expectations of society
