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Leprosy in Premodern Medicine

A Malady of the Whole Body

By: Luke Demaitre

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Leprosy in Premodern Medicine

A Malady of the Whole Body

By: Luke Demaitre

While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a “disease of the soul,” physicians in the period understood it to be a “cancer of the whole body.” In this innovative study, medical historian Luke Demaitre explores medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when judicious diagnosis could spare healthy people from social ostracization and help the afflicted get a license to beg. Extending his inquiry from the first century to late in the eighteenth century, Demaitre draws on translations of academic treatises and archival records to illuminate the professional standing, knowledge, and conduct of the practitioners who struggled to move popular perceptions of leprosy beyond loathing and pity. He finds that, while not immune to social and cultural perceptions of the leprous as degenerate, and while influenced by their own fears of contagion, premodern physicians moderated society's reactions to leprosy and were dedicated to the well-being of their patients.

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JHU Press

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0801891973

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9780801891977

Medieval Medicine

The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe

By: Luke DeMaitre

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Medieval Medicine

The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe

By: Luke DeMaitre

This unique examination of medieval medicine as detailed in physician's manuals of the period reveals a more sophisticated approach to the medical arts than expected for the time. Far from the primitive and barbaric practices the Middle Ages may conjure up in our minds, doctors during that time combined knowledge, tradition, innovation, and intuition to create a humane, holistic approach to understanding and treating every known disease. In fact, a singularly authoritative medical source of the period, Lily of Medicine, continued to provide crucial study for students and practitioners of medicine almost four centuries after its completion in 1305. This unprecedented book investigates the extensive capabilities of physicians who relied on practice, observation, and imagination before the supremacy of mechanistic views and technological aids. Medieval Medicine: The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe is a comprehensive look at diseases as they were described, classified, explained, assessed, and treated by doctors of the age. The author methodically compares a dozen encyclopedic manuals in which both the fundamental understanding of healthy functions and the specific response to diseases were summarized, viewing the information through a medieval perspective rather than based upon modern criteria.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313038422

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9780313038426

Leprosy in Premodern Medicine

A Malady of the Whole Body

By: Luke Demaitre

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A Malady of the Whole Body

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0801886139

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9780801886133

Doctor Bernard de Gordon

Professor and Practitioner

By: Luke E. Demaitre

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Doctor Bernard de Gordon

Professor and Practitioner

By: Luke E. Demaitre

Medizingeschichte (Mittelalter) / Montpellier.

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PIMS

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0888440510

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9780888440518

Doctor Bernard de Gordon

Professor and Practitioner

By: Luke E. Demaitre

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Professor and Practitioner

By: Luke E. Demaitre

Medizingeschichte (Mittelalter) / Montpellier.

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Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church

The Challenge of Luke-Acts to Contemporary Christians

By: Luke Timothy Johnson

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Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church

The Challenge of Luke-Acts to Contemporary Christians

By: Luke Timothy Johnson

In this and every age, the church desperately needs prophecy. It needs the bold proclamation of God’s transforming vision to challenge its very human tendency toward expediency and self-interest — to jolt it into new insight and energy. For Luke Timothy Johnson, the New Testament books Luke and Acts provide that much-needed jolt to conventional norms. To read Luke-Acts as a literary unit, he says, is to uncover a startling prophetic vision of Jesus and the church — and an ongoing call for today’s church to embody and proclaim God’s vision for the world.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467419419

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9781467419413

Book's by Luke DeMaitre

Leprosy in Premodern Medicine

Leprosy in Premodern Medicine

Medieval Medicine

Medieval Medicine

Leprosy in Premodern Medicine

Leprosy in Premodern Medicine

Doctor Bernard de Gordon

Doctor Bernard de Gordon

Doctor Bernard de Gordon

Doctor Bernard de Gordon

Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church

Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church

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