Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Hardcover, New Ed)

Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries explores the attitudes and responses of the mendicant orders to illness, their contribution to medical history, the influence of health and sickness as a factor in the orders' decision making, the extent of their participation in treatments, their relationship with physicians or their own involvement in medical practice, and the problems which occurred as a result of these matters. Apart from brief details of the last illness noted in some convent obituaries, the sick friar is usually conspicuous by his absence from the records. This book addresses this absence. By focusing on these neglected aspects of the mendicant orders it is possible to begin to reconstruct their attitudes and practices towards sickness, health and medical treatment. In so doing, a picture begins to emerge which provides a much fuller understanding of both mendicant and wider medical history. Through such an approach, the book demonstrates how preserving health as well as treating illness were matters of interrelated and vital concern to the friars, a concern that coincided with a rising interest in health matters in wider society during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The History of Medicine in Context
Release date:	October 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Angela Montford
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	318
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-3697-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
LSN:	0-7546-3697-6
Barcode:	9780754636977

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