Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West: A History in Documents: (From the Broadview Sources Series)

Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West: A History in Documents: (From the Broadview Sources Series)
ISBN-10
1460406753
ISBN-13
9781460406755
Category
Medical
Pages
290
Language
English
Published
2019-10-26
Publisher
Broadview Press
Author
Winston Black

Description

Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West traces the history of medicine and medical practice from Ancient Egypt through to the end of the Middle Ages. Featuring nearly one hundred primary documents and images, this book introduces readers to the words and ideas of men and women from across Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, from prominent physicians to humble healers. Each of the book’s ten chronological and thematic chapters is given a significant historical introduction, in which each primary source is described in its original context. Many of the included source texts are newly translated by the editor, some of them appearing in English for the first time.

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