Cultures of healing : medieval and after / Peregrine Horden.

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

xii, 378 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The world of the hospital : comparisons and continuities / with John Henderson and Alessandro Pastore -- Poverty, charity, and the invention of the hospital -- The earliest hospitals in Byzantium, Western Europe, and Islam -- Sickness and healing [in the Christian world, c.600-c.1100] -- The late Antique origins of the lunatic asylum? -- The sick family in the early Middle Ages : the evidence of Gregory of Tours -- What's wrong with early medieval medicine? -- Cities within cities : early hospital foundations and urban space -- Alms and the man : hospital founders in Byzantium -- The uses of medical manuscripts -- Medieval hospital formularies : Byzantium and Islam compared -- A context for Simon of Genoa's Medical Dictionary (Clavis sanationis) : medicine at the Papal Court in the later Middle Ages -- Small beer? : the parish and the poor and sick in later medieval England -- Musical solutions : past and present in music therapy -- Paracelsus : Renaissance therapy and its alternative -- Postscript to Chapter 15 : music therapy in Rabelais -- Aspects of music therapy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : Romanticism, the USA, Mesmerism, theosophy -- The prehistory of infant sexuality -- Thoughts of Freud -- Pandaemonium.