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Western medical thought from antiquity to the Middle Ages / edited by Mirko D. Grmek ; coordinated by Bernardino Fantini ; translated by Antony Shugaar.

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Western medical thought from antiquity to the Middle Ages / edited by Mirko D. Grmek ; coordinated by Bernardino Fantini ; translated by Antony Shugaar.
Publication
Cambridge, Ma : Harvard University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Fantini, Bernardino.
  • Grmek, Mirko D. (Mirko Dražen), 1924-2000.
  • Shugaar, Antony.
Description
vi, 478 pages; 24 cm
Uniform Title
Storia del pensiero medico occidentale. English.
Subject
  • History, Ancient
  • History, Medieval
  • Medicine, Ancient
  • Medicine, Medieval
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction / Mirko D. Grmek -- 2. The Birth of Western Medical Art / Jacques Jouanna -- 3. Between Knowledge and Practice: Hellenistic Medicine / Mario Vegetti -- 4. The Paths of Knowledge: Medicine in the Roman World / Danielle Gourevitch -- 5. Reception and Tradition: Medicine in the Byzantine and Arab World / Gotthard Strohmaier -- 6. Charity and Aid in Medieval Christian Civilization / Jole Agrimi and Chiara Crisciani -- 7. Medical Scholasticism / Danielle Jacquart -- 8. The Concept of Disease / Mirko D. Grmek -- 9. Therapeutic Strategies: Drugs / Alain Touwaide -- 10. Therapeutic Strategies: Surgery / Michael McVaugh -- 11. The Regimens of Health / Pedro Gil Sotres -- 12. Diseases in Europe: Equilibrium and Breakdown of the Pathocenosis / Jean-Noel Biraben.
ISBN
067440355X (alk. paper)
LCCN
98008462
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries