Físicos e cirurgiões medievais portugeses : contextos socioculturais, práticas e transmissão de conhecimentos (1192-1340) / André Filipe Oliveira da Silva.

The presented work has, as main objective, the study of the first individuals practising medicine in medieval Portugal, analysing also the sociocultural environment that favoured their emergence, knowledge transmission and the noticeable aspects of their practice. As complement, it's presented a list of physicians and surgeons, Portuguese or who worked in Portugal, serving as a brief prosopographical catalogue of the studied individuals.--page 23.