Medicine before science : the rational and learned doctor from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment...
Medicine before science : the rational and learned doctor from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment...
Medicine before science : the rational and learned doctor from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment / Roger French.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Date
2003.
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N614.94/1
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English
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v, 289 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Hippocrates and the philosophers -- 2. Galen -- 3. Medieval schools -- 4. Scholastic medicine -- 5. The weakening of the Latin tradition -- 6. The crisis of theory -- 7. Resolutions -- 8. Enlightenment, systems and science.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2003.
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This book offers an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. These were the elite, in reputation and rewards, and they were successful. Yet we can form little idea of their clinical effectiveness, and to modern eyes their theory and practice often seems bizarre. But t...
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Medicine before science : the rational and learned doctor from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment / Roger French.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N614.94/1
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74VvBpvJxEMl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvBpvJxEMl
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ISBN
0521007615 (pbk.)
9780521809771
0521809770
9780521007610 (pb.)
0521007615 (pb.)
9780521007610(pbk.)
0521007615(pbk.)
9780521809771 :
0521809770 :
9780521007610 (pbk.)
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610.940902
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991016321919702626
