Title Practical medicine from Salerno to the Black Death / edited by Luis García-Ballester, Roger French, Jon Arrizabalaga and Andrew Cunningham

Published Cambridge ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1994 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994 ©1994

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Description xiii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Introduction: practical medicine from Salerno to the Black Death Luis Garcia-Ballester -- 1. Astrology in medical practice Roger French -- 2. The science and practice of medicine in the thirteenth century according to Guglielmoa da Saliceto, Italian surgeon Jole Agrimi, and Chiara Crisciani -- 3. How to write a Latin book on surgery: organizing principles and authorial devices in Gugleilmo da Saliceto and Dino del Garbo Nancy G. Siraisi -- 4. Derivation and revulsion: the theory and practice of medieval phlebotomy Pedro Gil-Sotres -- 5. Surgical texts and social contexts: physicians and surgeons in Paris, c. 1270 to 1430 Cornelius O’Boyle -- 6. Medical practice in Paris in the first half of the fourteenth century Danielle Jacquart -- 7. Royal surgeons and the value of medical learning: The Crown of Aragon, 1300-1350 Michael R. McVaugh -- 8. Facing the Black Death: perceptions and reactions of university medical practitioners Jon Arrizabalaga -- 9. John of Arderne and the Mediterranean tradition of scholastic surgery Peter Murray Jones -- 10. Documenting medieval women's medical practice Monica H. Green -- 11. A marginal learned medical world: Jewish, Muslim and Christian medical practioners, and the use of Arabic medical sources in late medieval Spain Luis Garcia-Ballester Summary Essays on the practical aspects of medieval European medicine Analysis Medicine History Mediterranean region Notes "Arises from the conference ... Barcelona, April 1989"--Page xii Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject History of Medicine History of Medicine, Medieval -- congresses Medicine, Medieval -- History -- Congresses History of medicine, Medieval -- Congresses History, Medieval -- Congresses Medicine, Medieval -- History History, Medieval Genre/Form Congresses Conference papers and proceedings. History. Congresses Congress Conference papers and proceedings. Author García Ballester, Luis, editor French, Roger, editor Arrizabalaga, Jon, editor Cunningham, Andrew, editor LC no. 92049013 ISBN 0521431018 (hbk.)

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