Western medical thought from antiquity to the Middle Ages

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

Other author/creator	Grmek, Mirko D. (Mirko Dražen), 1924-2000.
Other author/creator	Fantini, Bernardino.
Other author/creator	Shugaar, Antony.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, Ma : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Description	478 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Medicine, Ancient. Medicine, Medieval.

Uniform title	Storia del pensiero medico occidentale. English.
Contents	Birth of Western medical art / Jacques Jouanna -- Between knowledge and practice : Hellenistic medicine / Mario Vegetti -- Paths of knowledge : medicine in the Roman world / Danielle Gourevitch -- Reception and tradition : medicine in the Byzantine and Arab world / Gotthard Strohmaier -- Charity and aid in medieval Christian civilization / Jole Agrimi and Chiara Crisciani -- Medical scholasticism / Danielle Jacquart -- Concept of disease / Mirko D. Grmek -- Therapeutic strategies : drugs / Alain Touwaide -- Therapeutic strategies : surgery / Michael McVaugh -- Regimens of health / Pedro Gil Sotres -- Diseases in Europe : equilibrium and breakdown of the pathocenosis / Jean-Noël Biraben.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-465) and index.
LCCN	98008462
ISBN	067440355X (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	R135 .S83513 1998	✔ Available	Place Hold