Early medical practices are not just a historical curiosity, but real stories about people and health that may teach us much about the 21st century. This intrig

Early medical practices are not just a historical curiosity, but real stories about people and health that may teach us much about the 21st century. This intrig

This volume discusses infirmitas (’infirmity’ or ’weakness’) in ancient and medieval societies. It concentrates on the cultural, social and domestic asp

The first part of this collection brings together a selection of Peregrine Horden's papers on the history of hospitals and related institutions of welfare provi

This history of medical thought from antiquity through the Middle Ages reconstructs the slow transformations and sudden changes in theory and practice that mark