The Plague And Medicine In The Middle Ages
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Author | : Fiona Macdonald |
Publisher | : Gareth Stevens |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780836858983 |
Describes the illnesses, plagues, diagnoses, and treatments during the Middle Ages.
Author | : John Aberth |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144222391X |
The Black Death of the late Middle Ages is often described as the greatest natural disaster in the history of humankind. More than fifty million people, half of Europe’s population, died during the first outbreak alone from 1347 to 1353. Plague then returned fifteen more times through to the end of the medieval period in 1500, posing the greatest challenge to physicians ever recorded in the history of the medical profession. This engrossing book provides the only comprehensive history of the medical response to the Black Death over time. Leading historian John Aberth has translated many unknown plague treatises from nine different languages that vividly illustrate the human dimensions of the horrific scourge. He includes doctors’ remarkable personal anecdotes, showing how their battles to combat the disease (which often afflicted them personally) and the scale and scope of the plague led many to question ancient authorities. Dispelling many myths and misconceptions about medicine during the Middle Ages, Aberth shows that plague doctors formulated a unique and far-reaching response as they began to treat plague as a poison, a conception that had far-reaching implications, both in terms of medical treatment and social and cultural responses to the disease in society as a whole.
Author | : Lynne Elliott |
Publisher | : Crabtree Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780778713586 |
Learn the history of medieval disease and how medical treatments were worse than the disease.
Author | : Juliana Cummings |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2021-12-08 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1526779358 |
The Middle Ages covers a span of roughly one thousand years, and through that time people were subject to an array of not only deadly diseases but deplorable living conditions. It was a time when cures for sickness were often worse than the illness itself mixed with a population of people who lacked any real understanding of sanitation and cleanliness. Dive in to the history of medieval medicine, and learn how the foundations of healing were built on the knowledge of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. Understand how your social status would have affected medical care, and how the domination of the Catholic Church was the basis of an abundant amount of fear regarding life and death. We are given an intimate look into the devastating time of the Black Death, along with other horrific ailments that would have easily claimed a life in the Middle Ages. Delve inside the minds of the physicians and barbersurgeons for a better understanding of how they approached healing. As well as diving into the treacherous waters of medieval childbirth, Cummings looks into the birth of hospitals and the care for the insane. We are also taken directly to the battlefield and given the gruesome details of medieval warfare and its repercussions. Examine the horrors of the torture chamber and execution as a means of justice. Medicine in the Middle Ages is a fascinating walk through time to give us a better understanding of such a perilous part of history.
Author | : Ian Dawson |
Publisher | : Enchanted Lion Books |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781592700370 |
Learn about how medicine was practiced long ago.
Author | : Christos Lynteris |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2021-07-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030723046 |
This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The chapters in this book illuminate to what extent the image of plague has not simply reflected, but also impacted the way in which the disease is experienced in different historical periods. The book asks what is the contribution of the entanglement between epidemic image and imagination to the persistence of plague as a category of human suffering across so many centuries, in spite of profound shifts in our medical understanding of the disease. What is it that makes plague such a visually charismatic subject? And why is the medical, religious and lay imagination of plague so consistently determined by the visual register? In answering these questions, this volume takes the study of plague images beyond its usual, art-historical framework, so as to examine them and their relation to the imagination of plague from medical, historical, visual anthropological, and postcolonial perspectives.
Author | : Faith Wallis |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442601035 |
In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to students and scholars.
Author | : Nicola Barber |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1410946495 |
Examines beliefs and practices, public health, and plague in the medieval world.
Author | : Luis García Ballester |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521431019 |
Essays on the practical aspects of medieval European medicine.
Author | : Michael Rogers McVaugh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2002-07-11 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521524544 |
An account of the medical world in eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death.