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Prioreschi, Plinio, A History of Medicine, 2nd ed., Omaha, Horatius Press, 1995 - 2007, 6 vols. publ.

Resum

Conté:
* vol. 1: Primitive and ancient medicine (Lewiston, N.Y.-Lampeter, Edwin Mellen Press, 1991; 2a ed.: Omaha, Horatius Press, 1995), 596 pp.
* vol. 2: Greek medicine (Lewiston, N.Y.-Lampeter, Edwin Mellen Press, 1994; 2a ed.: Omaha, Horatius Press, 1996), 771 pp.
* vol. 3: Roman medicine (1998), 822 pp.
* vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic medicine (2001), 498 pp.
* vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), 804 pp.
* vol. 6: Renaissance Medicine (2007), 801 pp.

Continguts del vol. 5:
INTRODUCTION
I. HISTORICAL OUTLINE
II. RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
A) Medicine and Religion
B) The Scholastic Method
III. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
A) Translation of Arabic Texts into Latin
B) The Pseudo-Sciences
C) The Dawn of Science
IV. MEDICINE OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (5th-12th CENTURIES)
A)Medicine
B) Medical Writers and Prominent Medical Figures
C) Monastic Medicine and Cathedral Schools
D) Montecassino and Constantinus Africanus
E) Salerno
F) Physicians Education and Ethics
V. MEDICINE OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES (13th-15th CENTURIES)
A) The Universities
B) Medicine and its Practitioners
C) Surgery and its Practitioners
D) Physicians, Education and Ethics
VI. OVERVIEW
A) Anatomy
B) Physiology
C) Medicine and Therapeutic
D) Surgery
E) "Medieval" Diseases
F) Hospitals
G) The Mental Patient
H) Veterinary Medicine
VII. THE IDEA OF PROGRESS
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

Matèries

Història de la medicina

Notes

"Plinio Prioreschi (1930–2014) [...] completed his MD (1954) at the University of Pavia, Italy, and his PhD (1961) in experimental medicine at the University of Montreal. From 1967 to 2002, Prioreschi was a professor of pharmacology and medicine at Creighton University" [M. A. Faria].

Recensions:
* Carolyn Shapiro, a Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 49/1 (1994), 143-146 (del vol. 1)
* Miguel A. Faria, a Surgical Neurology International, 6 (2015) 87 (sobretot del vol. 1)

URL

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