Medicine before the Plague by Michael R Mcvaugh

Medicine before the Plague by Michael R Mcvaugh

This book describes the medical world of the early fourteenth century through a study of the extensive archival material and contemporary writings which exist for eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death. It describes the range of medical practice which then existed - a continuum ranging from scattered academic physicians to barbers and empirics - and gives evidence for the levels and numerical growth of these various occupations in early fourteenth-century communities (although it also emphasizes that occupational distinctions were not yet sharply drawn). The newly translated Greco-Arabic medical learning was beginning to spread through this continuum of practice, and the book argues that public enthusiasm for the new learned medicine led to the 'medicalization' of certain social and legal institutions, thus preparing a role for a medical profession in this society before its physicians had shown any consciousness of collective self-interest and identity.

Michael R. McVaugh, Ph.D. (1965) in History (Princeton University) is Wiliam Smith Wells Professor of History at the University of North Carolina. He has published extensively on late medieval medicine, including Medicine Before the Plague (Cambridge, 1993).

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ISBN 13	9780521524544
ISBN 10	0521524547
Title	Medicine before the Plague
Author	Michael R Mcvaugh
Series	Cambridge Studies In The History Of Medicine
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2002-07-11
Number of pages	300
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