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.

Medicine before the Plague: Practitioners and their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285–1345 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)

History

McVaugh, Michael R.

Europe

Cambridge University Press

Garcia-Ballester, Luis, McVaugh, Michael R., Rubio, Agustin

Medical Licensing & Learning in 14th Century Valencia (Transactions Ser. ; Vol. 79, Pt. 6)) (English, Catalan and Catalan Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Rubiovela, Agustin

Garcìaballester, Luis

Philosophy

American Philosophical Society Press

The volume presents Avenzoar’s Regimen of Health (from twelfth-century Spain) in its medieval Latin and Hebrew translations from Arabic, together with an English version, and demonstrates in detail how the translation team—one Jew, one Christian—negotiated its collaborative result.

The Regimen Sanitatis of Avenzoar: Stages in the Production of a Medieval Translation (Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéval, 79)

Literature & Fiction

Shatzmiller, Joseph

Bos, Gerrit

History & Criticism

Brill Academic Pub

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