An introductory history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth century.

Based on little-read texts, this book explains how Gentile and his scholastic contemporaries were seen as successful doctors in the late middle ages. It relates the technical ...

This volume brings together original research that throws new light on how standards of behavior for medical practitioners are articulated in different religious, social, and ...

A century and a half after the Black Death killed over a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox - commonly known as ...

This consideration of the underlying forces which helped to produce a revolution in 17th century medicine sets out to show how, in the period between 1630 and 1730, medicine ...

This text studies the invention of the Friars' natural philosophy.