Medicine before science: the business of medicine from the middle ages to the enlightenment
Auteur :
French, Roger
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521007610
Date de publication :
20 févr. 2003
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,3 x 2,1 cm
Poids :
470 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book offers an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. While to modern eyes their theory and practice often seems bizarre, the historical evidence is they were judged by other criteria and helped to construct the expectations of society.