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Wallis, Faith, Medieval Medicine: A Reader, Toronto, University of Toronto Press (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures), 2010, xxvii + 563 pp., il. 
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 - Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. 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. The Reader includes 21 illustrations and a glossary of medical terms. Faith Wallis is Associate Professor, Department of History/Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.
 
 
Table of Contents: 
 
Introduction 
 
Part 1. Medicina: Healers and Healing in Early Medieval Europe (500-1100) 
 
Chapter 1. The Fragmented Heritage of Ancient Medicine 
I. The Alexandrian Curriculum in Latin Dress 
1. Isidore of Seville: the Canon of Medicine 
2. The Old Latin Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates 
3. Teaching the Alexandrian Curriculum in Ostrogothic Italy: Agnellus of Ravenna's Commentary on Galen's On Sects 
4. An Early Medieval Summary of Medical Theory: Wisdom of the Art of Medicine 
II. Medical Practices in a Changing World 
5. An Encyclopedia of Practical Medicine from the Age of Justinian: Alexander of Tralles 
6. Galen Enlarged for Practice: pseudo-Galen, Liber tertius on Pneumonia and Pleurisy 
7. Echoes of Methodism: "Aurelius" on Rabies 
8. Medical Self-Help for the Gentleman Traveler: the Medicine and Natural Remedies of "Pliny" 
9. A Late Antique Estate-Holder's Manual of Home Remedies 
10. The Doctor as Connoisseur of Pulses and Urines 
11. Prognosis and Prophecy: The Ivory Casket and the Signs of Impending Death 
 
Chapter 2. Christianity, Disease, and Medicine 
I. Saints as Healers 
12. A Sixth-Century Byzantine Saint Dispenses Medical Advice: Theodore of Sykeon 
13. The Medical World of Gregory of Tours: Plagues, Doctors, and Saints 
14. A Reluctant Bishop-Healer: John of Beverley 
15. A Carolingian Therapeutic Passion of Saints Cosmas and Damian 
II. Rituals of Healing 
16. St Sigismund, Patron of Sufferers from Fever 
17. "Prayers to the Earth and all Herbs" 
 
Chapter 3. Medicine in Early Medieval Courts and Cloisters 
I. The Doctor at Court 
18. The Court Physician in Ostrogothic Italy 
19. Dietary Advice for a Merovingian King 
20. Alcuin on the Doctors at Charlemagne's Court 
II. Monastic Medicine in the Early Medieval West 
21. The Care of the Sick at the Monastery of Vivarium 
22. Medical Injunctions in the Rule of St Benedict 
23. A Monastic Defense of Medicine against Rigorist Critics: the Lorsch Leechbook 
24. The Plan of St Gall: Medical Facilities within an Ideal Monastery 
25. Medicine, Morality, and Meditation in a Monastic Herb-Garden: Walahfrid Strabo's The Little Garden 
III. The Medical Networks of Missionaries and Bishops 
26. Medical Networks of Eighth-Century Anglo-Saxon Missionaries 
27. Bishop Pardulus of Laon dispenses Medical Advice 
28. Elias of Jerusalem sends a Prescription to King Alfred of Wessex 
29. Letters of Medical Advice from Bishop Fulbert of Chartres and his Circle 
 
Chapter 4. A Regional Case Study: Medicine in Anglo-Saxon England 
30. Bald's Leechbook and Leechbook III 
 
Part 2. Physica: The Advent and Impact of Academic Medicine (1100-1500) 
 
Chapter 5. Salerno: Medicine's "Theoretical Turn" and the Rationalization of Practice 
31. Tenth-Century Medicine: The Testimony of Richer of Rheims 
32. Constantine the African: The Romance of Translating Arabic Medicine 
33. Medical Theory and the Formation of the Articella (1): The Isagoge of Joannitius 
34. Medical Theory and the Formation of the Articella (2): Bartholomaeus of Salerno Comments on the Isagoge 
35. Salernitan Anatomy: The Second Salernitan Demonstration. 
36. The Practice of Pharmacy Rationalized: Circa Instans, the Antidotarium Nicolai, and its Commentary 
37. The Practice of Therapeutics Rationalized: The Practice of Medicine by Bartholomaeus of Salerno 
38. The Practice of Surgery Rationalized: The Surgery of Roger Frugard 
39. The Salernitan Tradition of Gynecology: The Trotula 
 
Chapter 6. Via scolaris: Medicine in the University 
I. Faculties and Curricula 
40. From Philosophy to Physic: Paris from the Late Twelfth Century to the Late Thirteenth Century 
41. Montpellier and the "New Galen" 
42. The "University of Arts and Medicine" at Bologna 
II. Medical Scholasticism in Action: Authoritative Texts and Academic Commentaries 
43. Is Medicine a Science? (1) Avicenna and his Commentator Gentile of Foligno 
44. Is Medicine a Science? (2) Arnau of Vilanova Argues that Medicine Transcends Theory 
45. Is Medicine a Science? (3) Henri of Mondeville on Progress in Medicine 
46. The Scholastic quaestio: Aristotle vs Galen on the Generation of the Embryo 
47. Academic Dissection as "Material Commentary" (1): Mondino de'Liuzzi 
48. Academic Dissection as "Material Commentary" (3:) Anatomical Illustration 
49. Scholastic Medicine Popularized: Bartholomaeus Anglicus 
 
Chapter 7. Theory and Practice in Scholastic Medicine 
50. Signs and Diagnosis (1): Gilles of Corbeil on Urines 
51. Signs and Diagnosis (2): Epitome on Pulses 
52. Causes: The Case of Epilepsy 
53. Scholastic Therapeutics (1): Rhazes, Book for Almansor 
54. Scholastic Therapeutics (2) John of Gaddesden on Smallpox 
55. Scholastic Pharmacology: Bernard of Gordon 
56. A Primer on Bloodletting (1): Lanfranc of Milan 
57. A Primer on Bloodletting (2): The "Sign Man" 
58. Is Surgery a Science? (1): Lanfranc of Milan Defends the Intellectual Dignity of Surgery 
59. Is Surgery a Science? (2): Henri of Mondeville's Defence of the Scientific Credentials of Surgery 
60. Is Surgery a Science? (3): Guy of Chauliac's History of Surgery 
61. A Surgical Sampler (1): Guy of Chauliac on the Treatment of Wounds 
62. A Surgical Sampler (2): Teodorico Borgognoni and the New Surgical Diseases 
63. A Surgical Sampler (3): Ophthalmic Surgery 
64. A Surgical Sampler (4): Surgical Anesthesia? 
 
Chapter 8. Contested Frontiers of Scholastic Medicine: Medical Astrology and Medical Alchemy 
65. Panacea or Problem? (1): The Case for Medical Astrology 
66. Panacea or Problem? (2): Jacques Despars's Reservations about Medical Astrology 
67. Roger Bacon: Alchemy and the Medical Payoff of "Experimental Science" 
68. Bisticius: A Florentine Goldsmith and Medical Alchemist. 
 
Part 3. Medicine and Society (1100-1500) 
 
Chapter 9. What is Disease? What is Illness? Doctors' Dilemmas and the Meaning of Suffering 
69. Interpreting Symptoms: The Difficult Case of Leprosy 
70. Metaphor and Malignancy: The Difficult Case of Cancer (1): Jean of Tournemire Diagnoses his Daughter's Breast Cancer and Receives Divine Medical Aid 
71. Metaphor and Malignancy: The Difficult Case of Cancer (2): Guillaume Boucher Treats a Parisian Lady with Breast Cancer 
72. The Enigma of Mental Illness: Hugo van de Goes's Mental Illness, and the Painter's Allegory of Melancholy 
73. Prophecy and Healing: the Meaning of Illness According to Hildegard of Bingen 
 
Chapter 10. Who Can Help? Physicians, "Empirics", and the Spectrum of Practitioners 
74. Should Clergy and Monks Practice Medicine? 
75. The Faculty of Medicine of Paris vs Jacopa Felicie 
76. The Faculty of Medicine of Paris vs Jean Domremi 
77. Jewish Doctors: The Case of Provence 
 
Chapter 11. What Can They Do? Clinical Encounters in Medieval Europe 
78. The Doctor at the Bedside: Precept (1): Archimatthaeus, Visting the Sick 
79. The Doctor at the Bedside: Precept (2): Arnau of Vilanova, On the Precautions that Physicians must Observe 
80. The Doctor at the Bedside: Practice Illustrated by Guillaume Boucher 
81. Tried and True: Medical Experimenta ("Proven Remedies") by Arnau of Vilanova 
82. Customized Therapeutics: The Medieval Medical Consilium (1): Abbot Peter the Venerable of Cluny Consults Master Bartholomaeus of Salerno 
83. Customized Therapeutics: the Medieval Medical Consilium (2): Gentile of Foligno 
84. The Special Challenges of Plague (1): The Report of the Paris Medical Faculty 
85. The Special Challenges of Plague (2): Guy of Chauliac on the Black Death 
86. The Special Challenges of Plague (3): John of Burgundy 
 
Chapter 12. The Ethics of Medical Care 1: Conscience and the Law 
87. Professional Character in the Early Middle Ages: Variations on Hippocratic Themes 
88. Ethics of Care in the Early Middle Ages: Christian Reflections 
89. Professional Conduct in the Later Middle Ages: From Character to Code 
90. Licensing and Accountability (1): Malpractice in Crusader Palestine 
91. Licensing and Accountability (2): Legislation Governing Doctors in the Thirteenth-Century Kingdom of Sicily 
92. Licensing and Accountability (3): Examining and Supervising Practitioners in Valencia 
93. John Arderne's Advice on how to determine the Fee, and Other Matters of Medical Etiquette 
 
Chapter 13. The Ethics of Medical Care 2: Hospitals and the Provision of Charity 
94. The Organization and Ethos of a Medieval Hospital (1): The Jerusalem Hospital 
95. The Organization and Ethos of a Medieval Hospital (2): The Hôtel-Dieu in Paris 
96. The Organization and Ethos of a Medieval Hospital (3): A Twelfth-Century English Leper Hospital 
97. Medical Care in a Medieval Hospital (1): The Jerusalem Hospital 
98. Medical Care in a Medieval Hospital (2): John of Mirfield at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London 
 
Chapter 14. The Cultivation of Health: Lifestyle, Regimen, and the Medical Self 
99. Lifestyle Advice for All (1): The Salerno Regimen of Health 
100. Lifestyle Advice for All (2): Aldobrandino of Siena on Health throughout the Life Cycle 
101. Lifestyle Advice, Customized (1): the Army on Campaign 
102. Lifestyle Advice, Customized (2): a Physician of Valencia advises his Sons, who are studying in Toulouse 
103. Medicalizing the Table and the Home: the Tacuinum sanitatis 
104. Medicalizing Sex: Constantine the African. 
 
Chapter 15. Satires and Critiques of Medicine 
105. Dr Galen and Burnel the Ass 
106. Petrarch Lashes Out against the Doctors 
107. The Doctor as Comic Relief in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament 
 
Glossary 
 
Index
 - Matèries
 - Medicina
 Antologia Lèxic
 - Notes
 - Fitxa de l'editor: http://www.utppublishing.com/Medieval-Medicine-A-Re ... 
  
Recensions: 
* Maud Kozodoy, The Medieval Review, 11.04.07, en accés lliure a http://hdl.handle.net/2022/13205  
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 | 1. | Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (c. 809 – 873/877), Isagoge ad Tegni Galieni, Adaptador: Constantí l'Africà (1017 – a. 1098/1099) [anglès], pp. 140-156. Completa.  Observacions: A partir de l'ed. de Maurach 1978 |  | 2. | Arnau de Vilanova (c. 1240 – 1311), Repetitio super aphorismo Hippocratis «Vita brevis» [anglès], pp. 211-220. Fragmentària.  Observacions: Reprodueix la traducció parcial de McVaugh i García Ballester. |  | 3. | Pseudo-Arnau de Vilanova, Breviarium practice [anglès], pp. 264-265. Fragmentària.  Observacions: Capítol 22. |  | 4. | Pseudo-Arnau de Vilanova, De cautelis medicorum [anglès], pp. 393-396 Observacions: Rreprodueix la traducció de Sigerist. |  | 5. | Arnau de Vilanova (c. 1240 – 1311), Experimenta [anglès], pp. 401-405 Observacions: Traducció de Faith Wallis a partir de l'edició parcial de McVaugh (1971), "The Experimenta of Arnald of ..." |  | 6. | Arnau de Vilanova (c. 1240 – 1311), Regimen Almarie [anglès], pp. 501-503. Completa.  Observacions: Traducció de Faith Wallis de McVaugh (1992), "Arnald of Villanova's Regimen ...". |   
 
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