Medicine before science : the rational and learned doctor from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment / Roger French.

By:

French, R. K. (Roger Kenneth)

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0511078072
9780511078071
051112001X
9780511120015
0511076509
9780511076503
9780521809771
0521809770
9780521007610
0521007615

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

History

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medicine before science.DDC classification:

610/.94/0902 22

LOC classification:

R690 .F745 2003eb

NLM classification:

2003 E-164
WZ 126

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; PART I Sources; PART II The Latin tradition; PART III The Crisis; Select bibliography; Index.

Summary: This book offers an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. While to modern eyes their theory and practice often seems bizarre, the historical evidence is they were judged by other criteria and helped to construct the expectations of society.

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Title notes ( 6 )

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"Select bibliography": pages 260-269

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; PART I Sources; PART II The Latin tradition; PART III The Crisis; Select bibliography; Index.

This book offers an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. While to modern eyes their theory and practice often seems bizarre, the historical evidence is they were judged by other criteria and helped to construct the expectations of society.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 651