Medicine and healing in the premodern west: a history in documents

"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 students and scholars to the words and ideas of prominent phy...

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Other Authors: Black, Winston E. 1977- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Peterborough (Ontario) Broadview Press [2020]
Series:The Broadview sources series
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Summary:"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 students and scholars to the words and ideas of prominent physicians and humble healers, men and women, from across Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. Each of the 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
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis Seite 269-270
Physical Description:xii, 273 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781554813902
1554813905

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