Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 229 mm
A History in Documents
Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-1-55481-390-2
Verlag: Broadview Press
Key Features - The first history of medicine reader to cover both Antiquity and the Middle Ages in a single volume.
- Nearly one hundred primary sources, including several images.
- Each topic and reading is accompanied by an introduction from the editor, and explanatory annotations are included throughout to clarify unfamiliar concepts.
- Significant coverage of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim cultures in the Middle Ages.
- Many of the primary sources are newly translated, some of them available in English for the first time.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Questions to Consider
- Documents
- 1. The Earliest Medical Writings of the Near East and Mediterranean (ca.2000-700 BCE)
- 1. The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus
- 2. Diagnosis in Ancient Egypt: The Ebers Papyrus
- 3. A Babylonian Spell against Fever
- 4. Plague as Divine Punishment in Homer’s Iliad
- 5. Gods as the Source of Disease: Hesiod, Works and Days
- 6. Violence and Healing in Homeric Greece
- 2. Medicine and Healing among the Ancient Greeks (ca.500 BCE – 200 CE)
- Rational Medicine in the Age of Hippocrates
- 7. Hippocratic Corpus, Nature of Man
- 8. Plato on the Nature of Disease: Timaeus
- 9. Thucydides and the Plague of Athens, 430 BCE
- 10. Hippocratic Corpus, Aphorisms
- 11. Hippocratic Corpus, Airs, Waters, and Places
- 12. Case Histories the Hippocratic Epidemics
- Asclepius, the God of Physicians
- 13. The Hippocratic Oath
- 14. Pindar: Apollo leaves Asclepius with Chiron the Centaur
- 15. Celsus celebrates Asclepius as a Man
- 16. A Greek anatomical votive plaque
- 17. Aelius Aristides dreams of Asclepius
- 18. An Egyptian God in Greek Dress in a Hellenistic Papyrus
- 3. Professional Medicine in the Roman Mediterranean (ca.1-300 CE)
- 19. Galen, On the Medical Sects
- 20. Aretaeus the Cappadocian on the Difficult Case of Tetanus
- 21. Rufus of Ephesus, Medical Questions: Interrogation of the Patient
- 22. Celsus: A Healthy Regimen without Doctors
- 23. Dioscorides and the Science of Pharmacology
- 24. Galen, the Boastful Practitioner: On the Affected Places
- 25. Galen, On Black Bile: Praising and Rewriting Hippocrates
- 26. Herodian on a plague in the Roman Empire
- 4. Practical Medicine for the Roman Family and Home (ca.100-500 CE)
- 27. Varro, De re rustica: An early germ theory?
- 28. Vegetius, De re militari: Preserving the Health of Imperial Troops
- 29. The Legend of Agnodike, a Greek midwife and physician
- 30. Soranus of Ephesus: Instructions for Midwives
- 31. Cato the Elder’s Roman remedies: Cabbage, Wine, and Magic
- 32. Pliny the Elder’s homespun medicine: Remedies derived from Wool
- 33. Popular medicine in verse: Liber medicinalis
- 5. Distilling Classical Medicine in Late Antiquity (ca.300-700 CE)
- 34. Oribasius: A Galenic Diet in the Later Roman Empire
- 35. Anthimus to King Theoderic, On the Observance of Diet
- 36. A Medieval Primer in Ancient Medicine by St. Isidore of Seville
- 37. Medicine of Pliny for the Informed Traveler
- 38. The Herbarius of Apuleius Platonicus
- 39. Marcellus and His Empirical Handbook of Medicines
- 40. The Drug Theory of Paul of Aegina
- 6. Medical Diversity in the Early Middle Ages (ca.600-1000 CE)
- Monotheism and Medicine
- 41. The Oath of Asaph, a Jewish Physician’s Oath
- 42. A Christianized Hippocratic Oath
- 43. Medicine and Diet in the Rule of St. Benedict
- 44. Roman Doctors as Christian Saints: Cosmas and Damian
- 45. Islamic Medicine of the Prophet: Sunan Abu Duwud
- Early Medieval Responses to Plague and Pestilence
- 46. Evagrius Scholasticus on the Plague of Justinian
- 47. Gregory of Tours on Epidemic Disease and the Sickness of Kings
- 48. A Votive Mass against Pestilence
- Old English Medicine: Superstition or Empiricism?
- 49. The Nine Herbs Charm, from the Old English Lacnunga
- 50. Bald’s Leechbook: Herbal remedies for eye problems
- 51. Medical Prognostics in Anglo-Saxon England
- 7. The Arabic Tradition of Learned Medicine (ca.900-1400 CE)
- 52. An Introduction to Rational Medicine: Hunayn ibn Ishaq’s Isagoge
- 53. Avicenna, The Canon of Medicine
- 54. Avicenna on Prognosis through Urine
- 55. Maimonides and Galen on the Meaning of the Pulse
- 56. Al-Razi, Case Studies in the Spirit of Hippocrates
- 57. Usamah ibn Munqidh: A Muslim view of Frankish Medicine
- 58. Al-Razi on Diagnosis and Treatment for Smallpox and Measles
- 59. Pilgrim Medicine: Qust? ibn L?q? on “The Little Dragon of Medina”
- 60. Ancient Greeks in Later Medieval Prophetic Medicine: al-Tibb al-nabawi
- 8. Learned Medicine in High Medieval Europe (ca.1000-1400 CE)
- Humours, Complexion, and Uroscopy
- 61. A Clever Duke and a Cleverer Physician in the Tenth Century
- 62. Constantine the African, Pantegni: Understanding Complexion
- 63. Humoural Medicine in Verse: The Salernitan Regimen of Health
- 64. A Medieval Urine Wheel
- 65. Constantine the African with a Urine Glass
- Explaining Diseases
- 66. Diagnosing Lovesickness: Constantine the African’s Medicalized Emotions
- 67. Platearius on Leprosy in Theory and Practice
- 68. Guy de Chauliac’s personal experience with the Black Death
- Observation and Authority
- 69. Trota of Salerno as a Medical Master
- 70. Medical Education in High Medieval Europe (Three Accounts)
- 71. Licenses for Male and Female Surgeons in Medieval Naples
- 72. A Woman Physician on Trial in Medieval Paris, 1322
- 9. Medical Practice in the High Middle Ages (ca.1000-1400 CE)
- Herbalism and Pharmacology
- 73. Macer Floridus, On the Virtues of Herbs
- 74. Henry of Huntingdon, Herbalism in The English Garden
- 75. Matthaeus Platearius: Rationalizing Simple and Compound Medicines
- Arabic and Latin Surgery
- 76. Learned Surgery: Albucasis on the Treatment of Cataracts
- 77. Applying Medical Theory to Wound Treatment: Guy de Chauliac
- 78. Training and Decorum for the Learned Surgeon
- Medieval Obstetrics and Gynecology
- 79. Copho: Anatomy of the uterus, learned from a pig
- 80. A Brief Guide to Uroscopy of Women
- 81. Contraceptives in the Canon of Avicenna
- 82. St. Hildegard of Bingen: A Moralized Explanation of Menstruation
- 83. Trotula: Treating Retention of the Period in Medieval Italy
- 84. A Medieval Hebrew Treatise on Difficult Births
- 10. Medicine and the Supernatural: Competitors or Partners? (ca.1000-1400 CE)
- 85. A Doctor and a Saint in Early Salerno
- 86. The Life of Saint Milburga: Physicians and Saints, Healing Together?
- 87. Doctors and Miracles in the Canonization of Lady Delphine
- 88. Medieval Jewish Magical Medicine
- 89. Medieval Christian Healing Charms
- 90. John Arderne, Astrological Instructions for the Surgeon
- 91. Image: Astrological Bloodletting Man