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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Rawcliffe, Carole, Leprosy in Medieval England, Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2006, 440 pp.
- Resum
- Set firmly in the medical, religious and cultural milieu of the European Middle Ages, this book is the first serious academic study of a disease surrounded by misconceptions and prejudices. Even specialists will be surprised to learn that most of our stereotyped ideas about the segregation of medieval lepers originated in the nineteenth century; that leprosy excited a vast range of responses, from admiration to revulsion; that in the later Middle Ages it was diagnosed readily even by laity; that a wide range of treatment was available, that medieval leper hospitals were no more austere than the monasteries on which they were modelled; that the decline of leprosy was not monocausal but implied a complex web of factors—medical, environmental, social and legal. Carole Rawcliffe writes with consummate skill, subtlety and rigour; her book will change forever the image of the medieval leper. -- Carole Rawcliffe is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia.
Contents:
1. Creating the medieval leper: some myths and misunderstandings
2. The body and the soul: ideas about causation
3. The sick and the healthy: reactions to suffering
4. Priests and physicians: the business of diagnosis
5. Medicine and surgery: the battle against disease
6. A Disease appart? The impact of segregation
7. Life in the medieval leper house
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
Recensions:
* F.-O. Touati, a Medical History, 53 (2009), 150-151 .
* Tabuteau (2009), "La lèpre dans l'Angleterre ..."
- URL
- http://books.google.com/books?id=M0NE9RB28esC
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