Medicine before Science - The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment - Roger French - Hardback Bog - Cambridge University
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Description
This book offers an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. While to modern eyes their theory and practice often seems bizarre, the historical evidence is they were judged by other criteria and helped to construct the expectations of society.