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Author Getz, Faye Marie, 1952- author.

Title Medicine in the English Middle Ages / Faye Getz
Published Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 174 pages) : illustrations
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents
Summary This book presents an engaging, detailed portrait of the people, ideas, and beliefs that made up the world of English medieval medicine between 750 and 1450, a time when medical practice extended far beyond modern definitions. The institutions of court, church, university, and hospital--which would eventually work to separate medical practice from other duties--had barely begun to exert an influence in medieval England, writes Faye Getz. Sufferers could seek healing from men and women of all social ranks, and the healing could encompass spiritual, legal, and philosophical as well as bodily
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-160) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Medicine, Medieval -- England
Medicine -- England -- History
Medicine, Medieval.
Medicine, Medieval -- England -- History
History, Medieval
PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
Medicine
Medicine, Medieval
Geneeskunde.
Artsen.
SUBJECT England https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739
Subject England
Engeland.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1400811732
9781400811731
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9781282753501
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0691085226
9786612753503
6612753501
140082267X
9781400822676