Practical medicine from Salerno to the black death / edited by Luis García-Ballester [and others].

Other author García Ballester, Luis.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, ©1994.
Descriptionxiii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
History, Medieval--Congresses.

Contents Introduction : practical medicine from Salerno to the Black Death / Luis García-Ballester -- Astrology in medical practice / Roger French -- The science and practice of medicine in the thirteenth century according to Guglielmo da Saliceto, Italian surgeon / Jole Agrimi and Chiara Crisciani -- How to write a Latin book on surgery : organizing principles and authorial devices in Guglielmo da Saliceto and Dino del Garbo / Nancy G. Siraisi -- Derivation and revulsion : the theory and practice of medieval phlebotomy / Pedro Gil-Sotres -- Surgical texts and social contexts : physicians and surgeons in Paris, c.1270 to 1430 / Cornelius O'Boyle -- Medical practice in Paris in the first half of the fourteenth century / Danielle Jacquart -- Royal surgeons and the value of medical learning : the Crown of Aragon, 1300-1350 / Michael R. McVaugh.
Contents Facing the Black Death : perceptions and reactions of university medical practitioners / Jon Arrizabalaga -- John of Arderne and the Mediterranean tradition of scholastic surgery / Peter Murray Jones -- Documenting medieval women's medical practice / Monica H. Green -- A marginal learned medical world : Jewish, Muslim and Christian medical practitioners, and the use of Arabic medical sources in late medieval Spain / Luis García Ballester.
General note"Arises from the conference ... Barcelona, April 1989"--P. xii.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection
LCCN 92049013
ISBN0521431018 (hc)