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The Medieval Hospital And Medical Practice

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xiii, ill; plans. Red boards, gilt titling to the spine & front. Footnotes with bibliographical references.
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Bowers, Barbara S. (Edited b
​The Medieval Hospital And Medical Practice
Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2007
8vo. xiii, ill; plans. Red boards, gilt titling to the spine & front. Footnotes with bibliographical references.  Barcode sticker on rear board. Series: AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art.

Contents: 1. On Doing Medieval Medical Research - I. Research procedures in evaluating medieval medicine / John M. Riddle --  II. The archives and library of the Sacre Infermeria, Malta / Theresa M. Vann -- III. Historical research developments on leprosy in France and western Europe / Bruno Tabuteau  
                   2. Physical Evidence: Archaeology and Architecture Technology  - IV. Excavations at St Mary spital: burial of the "sick poore" of medieval London, the evidence of illness and hospital treatment / William White --  V. Material culture of care for the sick: some excavated evidence from English medieval hospitals and other sites / Geoff Egan -- VI. The hospital of Notre-Dame des Fontenilles at Tonnerre: medicine as misericordia / Lynn T. Courtenay -- VII.  Function and epidemiology in Filarete's Ospedale Maggiore / Renzo Balasso  
                   3. New Approaches to Written Sources  - VIII.  Religion and discipline in the hospitals of thirteenth-century France / James W. Brodman --  IX. A non-natural environment: medicine without doctors and the medieval European hospital / Peregrine Horden --  X.  Byzantine hospital manuals (iatrosophia) as a source for the study of therapeutics / Alain Touwaide --  XI.  Medieval monastic customaries on minuti and infirmi / M.K.K. Yearl --  XII.  Challenging the "eye of Newt" image of medieval medicine / Anne Van Arsdall.  
                  4. The Monastic Connection  - XIII.  De domo Sancti Lazari milites leprosi: knighthood and leprosy in the Holy Land / Rafaël Hyacinthe -- XIV.  The infirmaries of the Order of the Temple in the medieval kingdom of Jerusalem / Piers D. Mitchell -- XV. The Benedictine rule and care of the sick: the plan of St Gall and Anglo-Saxon England / Maria A. D'Aronco.   

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