Doctoring the Black Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Doctoring the Black Death write by John Aberth. This book was released on 2021-09-15. Doctoring the Black Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Healers in the Making: Students, Physicians, and Medical Education in Medieval Bologna (1250-1550)
Healers in the Making: Students, Physicians, and Medical Education in Medieval Bologna (1250-1550) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Healers in the Making: Students, Physicians, and Medical Education in Medieval Bologna (1250-1550) write by Kira Robison. This book was released on 2020-12-15. Healers in the Making: Students, Physicians, and Medical Education in Medieval Bologna (1250-1550) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Healers in the Making, Kira Robison investigates medical instruction at the University of Bologna using the lens of practical medicine, examining both the formation of medical authority and innovations in practical medical pedagogy during the late medieval period.
Mistress of the Art of Death
Mistress of the Art of Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mistress of the Art of Death write by Ariana Franklin. This book was released on 2007-02-06. Mistress of the Art of Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition." In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the Jewish population, yielding even more tragic results. As Adelia's investigation takes her behind the closed doors of the country's churches, the killer prepares to strike again.
Bodies Politic
Bodies Politic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies Politic write by Roy Porter. This book was released on 2021-03-08. Bodies Politic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this historical tour de force, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease, and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body and that such ideas were mapped onto antithetical notions of the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. With these images in mind, he explores aspects of being ill alongside the practice of medicine, paying special attention to self-presentations by physicians, surgeons, and quacks, and to changes in practitioners’ public identities over time. Porter also examines the wider symbolic meanings of disease and doctoring and the “body politic.” Porter’s book is packed with outrageous and amusing anecdotes portraying diseased bodies and medical practitioners alike.
The Black Death, 1346-1353
The Black Death, 1346-1353 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black Death, 1346-1353 write by Ole Jørgen Benedictow. This book was released on 2004. The Black Death, 1346-1353 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of the Black Death considers the nature of the disease, its origin, spread, mortality and its impact on history.
