Cultures of healing : medieval and after / Peregrine Horden.

  • Horden, Peregrine
Date:
2019
  • Books

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Description

"This volume brings together for the first time an updated collection of articles exploring poverty, poor relief, illness, and health care as they intersected in Western Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, during a 'long' Middle Ages. It offers a thorough and wide-ranging investigation into the institution of the hospital and the development of medicine and charity, with focuses on the history of music therapy and the history of ideas and perceptions fundamental to psychoanalysis. The collection is both sequel and complement to Horden's earlier volume of collected studies, Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages (2008). It will be welcomed by all those interested in the premodern history of healing and welfare for its breadth of scope and scholarly depth." -- provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

xii, 378 pages ; 25 cm.

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Contents

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    BN /HOR
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  • 9781472456144
  • 1472456149