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French, Roger K., Ancients and moderns in the medical sciences: from Hippocrates to Harvey, Aldershot, Ashgate Variorum (Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS685), 2000, 300 pp.

Resum

The theme of this work is the growth of the European tradition of medical theory, from the early Middle Ages until its collapse in the 17th century. Central to this tradition were ancient texts and the respect accorded to the ancients themselves by the moderns, the teachers and practitioners of medicine of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The chapters examine how the ancient texts formed a resource for later medical men and how as a consequence they were sought out, translated and used. Three matters receive particular attention: the classroom culture by which the teachers perpetuated their pupils' faith in the ancient texts; the use of learning and argumentation by which the university doctors secured their reputation; and medical astrology as a prognostic technique. The story ends when the faith that had been given to Aristotle and Galen, and which held the medical tradition together, was broken, partly by the new natural philosophy and partly by the discovery of the circulation of the blood.

Matèries

Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
Astronomia i astrologia
Medicina - Ètica i etiqueta mèdiques
Educació
Filosofia - Filosofia natural

Notes

Conté:
I: Greek fragments of the lost books of Galen's anatomical procedures
II: "De Juvamentis Memborum" and the reception of Galenic physiological anatomy
III: An origin for the bone text of the "five-figure series"
IV: A note on the anatomical "accessus" of the Middle Ages
V: Foretelling the future: Arabic astrology and English medicine in the late 12th century
VI: French (1994), "Astrology in medical practice"
VII: The use of Alfred of Shareshill's commentary on "De Plantis" in university teaching in the 13th century
VIII: Gentile da Foligno and the "via medicorum"
IX: The medical ethics of Gabriel de Zerbi
X: Berengario da Carpi and the use of commentary in anatomical teaching
XI: Pliny and Renaissance medicine
XII: The languages of William Harvey's natural philosophy