Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

by Roger French
ISBN-10:
0521007615
ISBN-13:
9780521007610
Pub. Date:
02/20/2003
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521007615
ISBN-13:
9780521007610
Pub. Date:
02/20/2003
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

by Roger French
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Overview

This book is an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. While considered elite (in reputation and rewards) and successful, we know little of their clinical effectiveness. To modern eyes their theory and practice often seems bizarre. But historical evidence reveals that they were judged on other criteria, and this book asserts that these physicians helped to construct and meet the expectations of society.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521007610
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 02/20/2003
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Roger French is Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Clare Hall.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Sources: 1. Hippocrates and the philosophers; 2. Galen; Part II. The Latin Tradition: 3. Medieval schools; 4. Scholastic medicine; 5. The weakening of the Latin tradition; Part III. The Crisis: 6. The crisis of theory; 7. Resolutions; 8. Enlightenment, systems and science; Select bibliography.
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