Medicine in the Crusades - Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon (Hardcover)

This is the first book to be published on any aspect of medicine in the crusades. It will be of interest not only to scholars of the crusades specifically, but also to scholars of medieval Europe, the Byzantine world and the Islamic world. Focusing on injuries and their surgical treatment, Piers D. Mitchell considers medical practitioners, hospitals on battlefields and in towns, torture and mutilation, emergency and planned surgical procedures, bloodletting, analgesia and anesthesia. He provides an assessment of the exchange of medical knowledge that took place between East and West in the crusades, and of the medical negligence legislation for which the kingdom of Jerusalem was famous. The book presents a radical reassessment of many outdated misconceptions concerning medicine in the crusades and the Frankish states of the Latin East.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Piers D. Mitchell
Dimensions:	236 x 176 x 1mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-84455-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > General Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
LSN:	0-521-84455-X
Barcode:	9780521844550

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