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Author(s): Roger French
ISBN(s): 9780521809771, 0521809770
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Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0521809770 
ISBN 13: 9780521809771
Author: Roger French

This book offers an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. These were the elite, in reputation and rewards, and they were successful. Yet we can form little idea of their clinical effectiveness, and to modern eyes their theory and practice often seems bizarre. But the historical evidence is that they were judged on other criteria, and the argument of this book is that these physicians helped to construct the expectations of society – and met them accordingly. The main focus is on the European Latin tradition of medicine, reconstructed from ancient sources and relying heavily on natural philosophy for its explanatory power. This philosophy collapsed in the ‘scientific revolution’, and left the learned and rational doctor in crisis. The book concludes with an examination of how this crisis was met – or avoided – in different parts of Europe during the Enlightenment.

Medicine before Science The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment 1st Table of contents:

PART I Sources
CHAPTER 1 Hippocrates and the philosophers
MEDICAL WISDOM
PREDICTION
GROUPS OF DOCTORS
PHILOSOPHY
DEMOCRITUS PHYSICUS
ARISTOTLE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
REASONING
ANATOMY
CONTROLLING CENTRES
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 2 Galen
INTRODUCTION
MEDICAL COMPETITION IN ROME
MEDICAL GROUPS
GALEN AND THE DEMIURGE: RATIONALITY OF THE BODY
GALEN’S DEMONSTRATIONS
GALEN’S GOOD STORY: PROGNOSIS
RATIONALISING HIPPOCRATES
CREATION AND OMNIPOTENCE
CELSUS AND PLINY
CONCLUSION
PART II The Latin tradition
CHAPTER 3 Medieval schools
INTRODUCTION
EARLY SCHOOLS
EARLY TEXTS
TO WHAT PART OF PHILOSOPHY DOES IT BELONG?
INCORPORATION
THE RATIONALITY OF THE DOCTOR
SALERNO AND THE ARTICELLA
ARISTOTLE AND THE LATIN TRADITION
THE UNIVERSITIES
BEFORE THE FACULTIES
THE PANTEGNI AND SCHOLASTIC MEDICINE
CHAPTER 4 Scholastic medicine
INTRODUCTION
BECOMING A RATIONAL AND LEARNED DOCTOR
Where to go
Control and rewards
The medical faculty
Logical reason and philosophical learning
The later Latin medical tradition
MEDICAL TEXTS
Medical learning
The New Galen
DIALECTIC IN ACTION
Disputations
Dubia
Glosses, commentaries and the new heroes
PHYSICIANS AND PHILOSOPHERS
Differences and resolutions
Art or science
RECONSTRUCTING ANCIENT MEDICINE
Doctors and the history of medicine
Rationalising Hippocrates
Aphorisms and new authority
DISSECTION
GRADUATION
THE MEDICAL MARKETPLACE
Other learned doctors
Other kinds of practitioner
FORENSIC MEDICINE
CHAPTER 5 The weakening of the Latin tradition
INTRODUCTION
ASTROLOGY
HELLENISM AND THE ANCIENTS
THE RES LATINA
MEDICAL ETHICS
MEDICINE AND RELIGION
THE FRENCH DISEASE
PART III The Crisis
CHAPTER 6 The crisis of theory
EPIDEMICS CHANGE MEDICINE
CONTAGION
PLATONIC MEDICINE
SUBTLETY AND SEEDS
FORCES OF CONSERVATISM AND CHANGE
BACONIAN EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
CARTESIAN MECHANISM
WILLIAM HARVEY (1578–1657)
The discovery of the circulation
Institutional Galenism
CONTROVERSIES
MECHANISM AND CIRCULATION
CHAPTER 7 Resolutions
INTRODUCTION
THE CRISIS IN PHILOSOPHY
CREATING A NEW ORTHODOXY
THE PHYSICIAN’S LEARNING
EMPIRICISM
DENIAL
THE LONDON COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND THOMAS WILLIS
THE ITALIAN COLLEGES AND GENTLEMANLY MEDICINE
THE END OF THE LATIN TRADITION
CHEMISTRY AND MEDICINE
NEW INSTAURATIONS
The Baconian Instauration
The Newtonian Instauration
SOLIDISM
Microanatomy and mechanics
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 8 Enlightenment, systems and science
INTRODUCTION
EIRENICAL MEDICINE
NOSOLOGY
ONTOLOGY OF DISEASE
THE ENLIGHTENED DOCTOR
STAHL
ANIMISM
ROSETTI
WHAT MOVES THE MACHINE?
DOCTORS AND PATIENTS
THE NEW NATURE
PEER GROUP REVIEW
HALLER AND THE SOUL
MEDICAL SCIENCE?

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