History of medicine Books

Book SynopsisLa représentation de la vie psychique dans les récits factuels et fictionnels de l’époque classique interroge la frontière entre histoire et fiction à propos d’un objet précis du récit : la « transparence intérieure » des personnages. La représentation de la vie psychique dans les récits factuels et fictionnels de l’époque classique questions the border between history and fiction about a specific issue in narrative studies : "transparent minds" of characters.Table of ContentsMARC HERSANT ET CATHERINE RAMOND : Introduction I - Approches théoriques et poétiques DELPHINE DENIS : Historien ou narrateur ? Vers une approche non-communicationnelle du récit de fiction à l’âge classique. FLORENCE DUMORA : Critères narratologiques et cas du rêveur BEATRICE GUION : « Fouiller dans les cœurs pour deviner les pensées » : la réception des Histoires de Davila et Varillas JEAN-PAUL SERMAIN : Ciel ! sa vie psychique ! Une affaire de style, d’histoire et d’interprétation COMPTE-RENDU DE TRANSPARENT MINDS PAR ANN BANFIELD (PRESENTATION ET TRADUCTION PAR SYLVIE PATRON) Les modes de représentation de la vie psychique dans le roman. Un point de vue linguistique : II - L’écriture factuelle : une tentation de la fiction ? HELENE MERLIN-KAJMAN : La transparence extérieure : les Mémoires de Mme de La Guette FRANCINE WILD : La représentation de la vie psychique dans les Historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux BEATRICE GUION : La représentation de l’intériorité dans l’Histoire des guerres civiles de France de Davila FRANCESCO PIGOZZO : Littérarité, écriture factuelle et figurations du réel : la vie psychique dans les Mémoires de Saint-Simon MARC HERSANT : Saint-Simon omniscient de lui-même : la « Note Saint-Simon » des Notes sur tous les duchés-pairies MICHELE BOKOBZA KAHAN : La vie psychique dans le témoignage religieux des Lumières CYRIL FRANCES : « J’entendais parfaitement le langage de son âme » : les mirages de l’intériorité dans l’Histoire de ma vie de Casanova STEPHANIE GENAND : Du génie du sentiment à l’énigme de nous-mêmes : le voyage intérieur de G. de Staël dans De l’Allemagne III - Les formes de la fiction : une vie psychique sous contrôle ? MARIE CAPEL : L’usage de la première personne en prose chez Théophile de Viau : la « vie psychique » en régime de feintise ADRIENNE PETIT : L’énoncé sentencieux dans la nouvelle historique et galante : expression vraisemblable des affects ou trace d’une rhétorique des passions ? FRANÇOISE GEVREY : Un homme et une femme : la représentation de la vie psychique dans les Mémoires de M. L.C.D.R. et les Mémoires de Madame la Marquise de Fresne de Courtilz de Sandras REGINE JOMAND-BAUDRY : Blessures de l’âme et récit dans Le Spectateur français de Marivaux JEAN-FRANÇOIS PERRIN : De l’amnésie au souvenir jailli : le savoir de l’oubli dans La Vie de Marianne VIOLAINE GERAUD : La syntaxe de la phrase, miroir de la vie psychique dans Les Égarements du cœur et de l’esprit de Crébillon CATHERINE RAMOND : Trouble dans le sujet : la vie psychique de Justine IV - Les types d’intériorité représentés ADRIEN PASCHOUD : Vie psychique et mystique jésuite : l’exemple de Jean-Joseph Surin DOMINIQUE BRANCHER : Opiacées et déshabillés. La psyché sous l’œil de la médecine (XVIe – XVIIe siècles) FABIENNE BOISSIERAS : Topoï et topiques dans La Vie de Marianne CAROLINE JACOT GRAPA : Du genou de Jacques aux oreilles du lecteur, suite DAMIEN ZANONE : Séduction et impasse du paradoxe chez Mme de Staal-Delaunay DANIEL ACKE : La représentation de la vie psychique chez le prince de Ligne : une écriture du présent PAUL PELCKMANS : « Au moment où j’écris ceci ». Le présent des premières Confessions et la construction d’une nouvelle curiosité de soi Bibliographie théorique et critique Personalia Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing in particular on physicians’ casebooks, Medical Practices, 1600-1900 studies the changing nature of ordinary medical practice in early modern Europe. Combining case studies on individual German, Austrian and Swiss practitioners with a comparative analysis across the centuries, it offers the first comprehensive and systematic overview of the major aspects of premodern practitioners daily work and business – from diagnostic and therapeutic approaches and the kinds of patients treated to financial issues, record keeping and their place in contemporary society.Trade ReviewIn dem vorzustellenden Sammelband werden acht Projekte zu städtischen und ländlichen Arztpraxen (mit Forschenden aus Berlin, Bern, Ingolstadt, Innsbruck/Bozen, Stuttgart,Würzburg und Zürich) im Zeitraum vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis zum Fin de Siècle von 20 Autorinnen und Autoren vorgestellt. Dazu haben die Herausgeber eine sehr gelungene Zweiteilung gewählt. - Christina Vanja, Kassel, Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 44 (2017) 3, 571-573Table of ContentsIntroduction Martin Dinges and Michael Stolberg PART 1 1. Cornucopia Officinae Medicae: Medical Practice Records and Their Origin Volker Hess and Sabine Schlegelmilch 2. Doctors and Their Patients in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries Marion Baschin, Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum and Iris Ritzmann 3. Daily Business: The Organization and Finances of Doctors’ Practices Philipp Klaas, Hubert Steinke and Alois Unterkircher 4. Medicine in Practice: Knowledge, Diagnosis and Therapy Annemarie Kinzelbach, Stephanie Neuner and Karen Nolte 5. Medical Practice in Context: Religion, Family, Politics and Scientific Networks Ruth Schilling and Kay Peter Jankrift PART 2 6. ‘What a Magnificent Work a Good Physician is’: The Medical Practice of Johannes Magirus (1615–1697) Sabine Schlegelmilch 7. Observationes et Curationes Nurimbergenses: The Medical Practice of Johann Christoph Götz (1688–1733) Annemarie Kinzelbach, Susanne Grosser, Kay Peter Jankrift and Marion Ruisinger 8. Social Mobility and Medical Practice: Johann Friedrich Glaser (1707–1789) Ruth Schilling 9. Medical Bedside Training and Healthcare for the Poor in the Würzburg and Göttingen Policlinics in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Stephanie Neuner and Karen Nolte 10. Unlicensed Practice: A Lay Healer in Rural Switzerland Alois Unterkircher and Iris Ritzmann 11. Administrative and Epistemic Aspects of Medical Practice: Caesar Adolf Bloesch (1804–1863) Lina Gafner 12. Franz von Ottenthal: Local Integration of an Alpine Doctor’s Private Practice (1847–1899) Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum, Marina Hilber and Eberhard Wolff 13. A Special Kind of Practice? The Homeopath Friedrich von Bönninghausen (1828–1910) Marion Baschin

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Book SynopsisIn Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Master of the Minuscule, the Father of Microbiology is presented in the context of his time, relationships and the Dutch Golden Age. Although he lacked an academic education, he dedicated his life to investigating the microscopic world using handmade, single-lensed microscopes and magnifiers. An expert observer, he planned experiments and designed equipment to test his theories. His pioneering discoveries included blood cells, protozoa, bacteria and spermatozoa, and resulted in an international reputation among the scientific and upper classes of 17th and 18th century Europe, aided by his Fellowship of the Royal Society of London. This lavishly illustrated biography sets his legacy of scientific achievements against the ideas and reactions of his fellow scientists and other contemporaries.Trade Review"Antoni van Leeuwenhoek: Master of the Minuscule presents an engaging and copiously illustrated biography in a format which should suit a wide audience and age range. It's the English edition of the biography first published in Dutch by Veen Media in 2014 entitled Van Leeuwenhoek, groots in het kleine. [...] The authors have found a good balance for the level of depth presented without becoming a dry read. [...] The style chosen doesn't use either in-text numbered references or footnotes and presents a more inviting read than the sometimes dense appearance of a heavily annotated monograph. [...] The reproduction of the illustrations is to a high standard, presented on bright white paper and incorporated into the body of the text rather than as separate plates. Together with an attractive hardback cover it is a book that is inviting to read. [...] The authors successfully present imagery (including darkfield) which provides an insight into the sort of views Van Leeuwenhoek may have seen, rather than use modern microscopes and techniques. [...] I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book and deserves a wide audience for those wishing to learn more of Van Leeuwenhoek's life and work." – David Walker in the June 2016 edition of Micscape (the online monthly magazine of the Microscopy UK web site at http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk). The full review can be read here.Table of Contents1 The Early Years 2 Return to Delft 3 Antoni’s First Brush with Science 4 Van Leeuwenhoek’s Microscopes 5 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and His Microorganisms 6 The Discovery of the “Semine genitali Animalculis” or Spermatozoa 7 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and the Question of Generation 8 The Circulation of Blood 9 Secrets of Nature 10 The Famous Van Leeuwenhoek 11 The End of a Long Life 12 The Scientific Legacy of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Timeline

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Book SynopsisTrauma in Medieval Society is an edited collection of articles from a variety of scholars on the history of trauma and the traumatised in medieval Europe. Looking at trauma as a theoretical concept, as part of the literary and historical lives of medieval individuals and communities, this volume brings together scholars from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, history, literature, religion, and languages. The collection offers insights into the physical impairments from and psychological responses to injury, shock, war, or other violence—either corporeal or mental. From biographical to socio-cultural analyses, these articles examine skeletal and archival evidence as well as literary substantiation of trauma as lived experience in the Middle Ages. Contributors are Carla L. Burrell, Sara M. Canavan, Susan L. Einbinder, Michael M. Emery, Bianca Frohne, Ronald J. Ganze, Helen Hickey, Sonja Kerth, Jenni Kuuliala, Christina Lee, Kate McGrath, Charles-Louis Morand Métivier, James C. Ohman, Walton O. Schalick, III, Sally Shockro, Patricia Skinner, Donna Trembinski, Wendy J. Turner, Belle S. Tuten, Anne Van Arsdall, and Marit van Cant.

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Book SynopsisThis volume rethinks the role of the Sino-Japanese medical classics during the early modern period in light of antiquarianism, languages, and medical philology. Philology in particular allows the authors to address the changing meaning of the same term, which often reflected well-known metaphors in the source language that were transposed to the target language. Each essay touches on the reliability of received medical texts and their modern fate.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length study of doctor migration from Ireland covering roughly a century of the export of Irish medical graduates to other parts of the world. From 1860 around forty percent of Ireland’s medical graduates left to pursue careers elsewhere. The book examines the factors which drove emigration, the shifting destinations of the emigrants and the effect of migration both upon them and the Ireland they left behind. This was the migration of a part of the Irish middle class, small in terms of Irish emigration as a whole, but important in the global history of medical migration. At the end of the twentieth century doctor migration as a whole has increased and become a significant part of the medical experience. The book is a contribution to the growing literature on the global history of doctor movements across the world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction  1 Irish Emigration  2 Doctor Migration  3 The Internationalisation of Medicine  4 The Structure of the Book 1 The Medical Institutions of Ireland  1 The Medical Registration Act 1858  2 The Evolution of Irish Medical Education  3 The Hospitals  4 The Poor Law  5 Professional Organisations in Ireland and Britain  6 The Number of Doctors in Ireland  7 The Over-Production of Doctors in Ireland  8 Conclusion 2 Making a Medical Living  1 General Practice in Ireland and England  2 General Practice in Ireland  3 Private Practice  4 The Doctors’ Boycott  5 Conclusion 3 The British Empire  1 The Indian Medical Service  2 Far-Flung Shores  3 Those Who Returned  4 The IMS and the Scientific Mind  5 The Decline of the Colonial Medical Services  6 Conclusion 4 Medicine, Migration and the Making of the Irish Middle Class  1 The Costs of Medical Education in Ireland  2 Catholics, Medicine and Social Mobility  3 The Catholic Middle Classes and Medicine  4 Income, Class and Migration  5 Migration, Money and the Middle-Class Family  6 Migration and a Medical Dynasty  7 Migration and Poverty  8 Ireland’s Intellectual Resources  9 Conclusion 5 Partition  1 The Settlement in Health  2 The Registration Crisis  3 Connections Maintained  4 The Border with Ireland  5 The Future of Medicine in Ireland  6 The Notion of Being Irish and Emigration  7 Conclusion 6 The Irish Doctor in Interwar Britain  1 The Insurance Act and Migration  2 The Distribution of Graduates from Irish Medical Schools  3 Friendship and Collegiality  4 The “Powerful Army” of Catholic Doctors and Practice in Britain  5 The Guild of SS Luke, Cosmos and Damian  6 Professional Integration  7 The Role of the State in Health Care  8 The National Health Service and the Irish Migrant Doctor  9 Conclusion 7 The Lure of America  1 The Rockefeller Visit to Ireland  2 Medical Immigration to the United States  3 The AMA, Doctor Immigration and the Approved List  4 The Irish Medical Emigrant and the USA  5 The Approved List and the Foreign Medical Schools  6 Ireland and the Approved List  7 The Irish Medical Schools and the Irish Doctor  8 The End of the Approved List  9 Conclusion 8 Inward Migration  1 The State and Medical Education  2 Medical Education in the New Era  3 Foreign Students  4 A Private Medical School in the Age of Globalisation  5 The Future of Irish Medical Emigration  6 Conclusion Epilogue Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Naturopathy in South India – Clinics between Professionalization and Empowerment, Eva Jansen offers a rich ethnographic account of current naturopathic thinking and practices, and examines its complex history, multiple interpretations, and antagonisms. This book presents two major forms of Naturopathy in contemporary South India: On one side, a scientific, professional branch models themselves after allopathic practitioners. On the other side, a group of ideologists uses an approach to patient treatment that is grounded in the principles of simplicity, transparency, a critique of globalization, and a focus on patient empowerment. Jansen discusses the current political and medical clash between Naturopaths in South India from the perspectives of practitioners, employees, the media and patients.

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Book SynopsisDas vorliegende Buch widmet sich den Lebensumständen und der Berufsethik der arabischen Ärzte des Mittelalters. Auf der Grundlage zahlreicher biographischer, protreptischer, deontologischer und isagogischer Schriften untersucht Bürgel verschiedenste Aspekte der medizinischen Ausbildung, der Berufsausübung und der Rolle von Ärzten in der islamischen Gesellschaft. The present book investigates conditions of life and professional ethics of the Arab physicians in the Middle Ages. Based on a multitude of biographical, protreptic, deontological, and isagogic texts, Bürgel analyzes diverse aspects of medical education, professional conduct, and the role of doctors in Islamicate societies.Table of ContentsInhaltsverzeichnis Vorwort Inhaltsverzeichnis Einleitung Quellenübersicht Teil I. Orts- und Grenzbestimmungen der Medizi 1. Die Definition der Medizin (ḥadd aṭ-ṭibb) 2. Die Einteilung der Medizin (taqsīm/aqsām aṭ-ṭibb) Die „natürlichen“ und die „notwendigen“ Dinge 3. Die Legitimität der Medizin (ṣiḥḥat aṭ-ṭibb) Das tawakkul-Problem Die rationale Rechtfertigung der Heilkunst, namentlich bei Ibn Hindū Die religiöse Rechtfertigung der Heilkunst Rechtfertigung der Medizin aus dem Hadith Die Rechtfertigung der Medizin aus dem Koran 4. Der Adel der Medizin (šaraf aṭ-ṭibb) Ar-Ruhāwīs Kapitel über den „Adel der Heilkunst“ Ibn Hindūs Kapitel über den „Adel der Heilkunst“ 5. Die medizinischen Schulen (firaq aṭ-ṭibb) Ibn Hindūs Kapitel über die medizinischen Schulen 6. Die Erkenntnismittel der Medizin Bei Ibn Hindū Bei Ibn abī Uṣaibiʿa Bei ar-Ruhāwī Zusammenfassung 7. Das Ideal der „Symmetrie“ (iʿtidāl) Teil II. Die Ausbildung der Ärzte 1. Eignung und Berufswahl 2. Allgemeine Umrisse des Medizinstudiums Qirāʾa und ḫidma – „Lektüre“ und „Dienst“ Zur Rolle des Lehrers Zur Frage der medizinischen Lehrstätten 3. Der Unterricht im maǧlis 4. Der Unterricht am Hospital (bīmāristān) 5. Die praktische Lehrzeit (ḫidma) 6. Der Lehrstoff I: Die propädeutischen Fächer Die Logik 96 – Sonstige Fächer: bei Ṣāʿid Sonstige Fächer: bei Ibn Hindū Sonstige Fächer: bei Ibn Riḍwān und ar-Ruhāwī 7. Der Lehrstoff II: Der Alexandrinische Kanon Gründe für die Entstehung des Kanons laut arabischer Überlieferung Die angeblichen Autoren des Kanons Die Schriften des Kanons Vorzüge und Mängel des Kanons in der Sicht arabischer Ärzte 8. Allgemeine Bildungsbestrebungen 9. Die Spezialisierung 10. Die Prüfung der Ärzte (miḥnat/imtiḥān al-aṭibbāʾ) Ar-Ruhāwīs Prüfungskapitel ar-Rāzīs Prüfungsschrift Ṣāʿids Prüfungskapitel Ibn Buṭlāns „Gastmahl der Ärzte“ as-Sulamīs Prüfungsfragen Die Prüfung der Ärzte in den Ḥisba-Büchern Konkrete Prüfungsfälle: Einzelprüfungen Gruppenprüfungen Zusammenfassung Teil III. Die praktische Berufsausübung des Arztes A Erscheinungsformen des Arztes 1. Lebensführung und Berufsethik Allgemeine Vorstellungen über die rechte Lebensführung des Arztes Äußere Erscheinung, Körperpflege und Kleidung Standesbedingtes Verhalten Der deontologische Aspekt Die Rolle des hippokratischen Eides Über den „Eid“ hinausgehende arztethische Forderungen Ausmaß und Grenzen ärztlicher Barmherzigkeit im Hinblick auf die Art und den Status der Krankheit Ausmaß und Grenzen ärztlicher Barmherzigkeit im Hinblick auf den sozialen Status des Kranken Ausmaß und Grenzen ärztlicher Barmherzigkeit im Hinblick auf die Konfession des Kranken Schlussbemerkung 2. Der Erfolgsarzt Spürsinn (ḥads) und Prognose (taqdimat al-maʿrifa) Der Topos vom Puls der Liebeskranken Der Topos von der Erweckung Scheintoter Die Rolle der Suggestionskraft 3. Der Scharlatan Der Scharlatan bei ar-Ruhāwī Der Scharlatan bei ar-Rāzī Scheinoperationen Zusammenfassung 4. Der Arzt als Hüter der Gesundheit Der Begriff der ḥimya Der Weingenuss und das Hören von Musik Der Geschlechtsgenuss 5. Der Arzt als Heilender I.: Der Arzt im Sprechzimmer, im Krankenzimmer und im Hospital 6. Der Arzt als Heilender II.: Psychotherapeutica Die Lehren über den psychosomatischen Zusammenhang und die daraus resultierende Zuständigkeit des Arztes für seelische Leiden Das suggestive und autosuggestive Moment im Heilungsprozess Schocktherapie Psychopharmaka Zusammenfassung B Zur Stellung des Arztes in der Gesellschaft: Der Arzt und seine Partner 1. Arzt und Laie Die Unwissenheit der Laien als Bedingung ärztlicher Existenz Die Unwissenheit der Laien als Gefährdung ärztlicher Existenz 2. Arzt und Herrscher Bewertung des Hofdienstes seitens der Ärzte Karrieren berühmter Hofärzte Hofkarrieren ehemals unbekannter Ärzte Die üblichen Obliegenheiten des Hofarztes Betrauung mit Hofämtern Ehrungen und Privilegien Arroganz und Koketterie Strafen und Willkürakte 3. Der Arzt und sein Kollege 4. Arzt und Apotheker 5. Verantwortlichkeit und Straffälligkeit Teil IV. Koordinaten und Perspektiven 1. Das griechische Erbe Die orientalistische Diskussion über die Rezeption der Antike im Islam Bemerkungen zur Rezeption der vorgalenischen Antike bei Ibn abī Uṣaibiʿa Das Bild Galens bei Ibn abī Uṣaibiʿas „Orientalisches“ und „Griechisches“ in der Galen-Rezeption bei anderen arabischen Autoren Rezeption und Assimilation 2. Die Islamisierung der Medizin Die Bedeutung der Prophetenmedizin Ärztliche Kritik an der Prophetenmedizin Die Islamisierung des „ärztlichen Lebens“ Die Stellung der jüdischen und christlichen Ärzte Zusammenfassung 3. Der Niedergang der arabischen wissenschaftlichen Medizin Das Verfalls-Klischee Symptome und Ursachen des Verfalls der Heilkunst nach Ansicht arabischer Ärzte Ibn Ǧumaiʿs Kapitel über die Ursachen des Verfalls der Heilkunst Schlusswort English Summaries Abkürzungsverzeichnis Literaturverzeichnis I. Liste der in Beirut, Istanbul und Bursa eingesehenen medizinischen arabischen Handschriften II. Sonstige arabische Quellen III. Griechische Quellen IV. Sekundärliteratur Indices Personen- und Ortsnamen Buchtitel Sachindex Koranstellen

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Book SynopsisIn Medizin im Konflikt, Jana Madlen Schütte analyses the status of medical doctors between university and market in the Middle Ages and at the beginning of the early modern period. Their positon initially at the universities as well as on the medical market was precarious. As the smallest faculty, medicine had to stand up to the other disciplines. Meanwhile, as participants in the medical market, the faculty members had to face competitors such as barbers, surgeons, apothecaries, and Jewish doctors. Jana Madlen Schütte explores how this situation of dual conflict affected the actions of the medical doctors and the strategies that they employed to demonstrate that their approaches were scientific as well as practical.Trade Review''Schütte’s extensive presentation and discussion of the state of the art will be of great service to those readers looking for a competent and up-to-date survey, especially of the rich German-language historical scholarship on the topics she approaches in her book.'' Michael Stolberg, in Renaissance Quarterly , LXXII, NO.1 (2018).Table of ContentsInhaltsverzeichnis Abbildungsverzeichnis vii Vorwort viii Abkürzungen ix 1 Einleitung 1 1.1 Zum Forschungsstand: Der ‚Streit der Fakultäten‘ 5 1.2 Theoretische und methodische Zugänge: Experten auf dem medizinischen Markt 12 1.3 Quellen, Fragestellung und Untersuchungsgang 28 2 Zwischen Institutionalisierung und Inszenierung: Medizin als scientia und als ars 31 2.1 Die Entstehung der medizinischen Fakultäten 33 2.2 Die Positionierung der nicht-akademischen Heilkundigen auf dem medizinischen Markt 53 2.3 Zwischen Vertrauen und Ärztekritik – die Institutionalisierung medizinischen Wissens und die Grenzen des medizinischen Expertenwissens 64 3 Die Inszenierung der auctoritas – Standesrepräsentationen, Selbstdarstellungen und Rangkonflikte der Medizinexperten im universitären Kontext 73 3.1 Repräsentation des Universitätsmediziners 75 3.1.1 Der Arzt als Ratgeber für Repräsentation und Selbstdarstellung 75 3.1.2 Sektion mit eigener Hand – die Inszenierung in anatomischer Traktatliteratur 83 3.1.3 Das theatrum anatomicum – von ‚privater‘ zu ‚öffentlicher‘ Repräsentation 97 3.1.4 Vom anatomischen Wissen zum Inszenierungswissen – die Sektion in der Ausbildung der Medizinstudenten 112 3.2 Konflikte der Mediziner im universitären Feld 124 3.2.1 Die Stellung der Medizin im theoretischen Diskurs 127 3.2.2 Präzedenzkonflikte zwischen Medizinern und Juristen 142 3.2.3 Konflikte innerhalb des gelehrten medizinischen Feldes 152 3.2.4 Anlässe, Auslöser und Adressaten der Konflikte 171 3.3 Die Reflexion des Konflikts – Visitationen und Reformen 173 3.3.1 Scheitern der Reformbemühungen – eine Offenlegung des Konflikts 176 3.3.2 Visitation und Universitätsverfassung – eine Lösung des Konflikts 186 3.3.3 Obrigkeitliche Normierungen an der Universität – eine Eröffnung neuer Konflikte auf dem Markt 195 4 Von experientia und auctoritas – Auseinandersetzungen der medizinischen Fakultät mit anderen Heilkundigen 198 4.1 Die Konkurrenz zu Badern, Barbieren und Wundärzten 200 4.1.1 Ausbildung und Organisation der Bader, Barbiere und Wundärzte 202 4.1.2 Das Vorgehen der medizinischen Fakultät gegen ‚widerrechtlich Praktizierende‘ 216 4.1.3 Die Selbstwahrnehmung und -darstellung der nicht-akademischen Heilkundigen 239 4.1.4 Konkurrenten im Hörsaal? Akademische und nicht-akademische Heiler an der medizinischen Fakultät 268 4.2 Ärzte und Apotheker im Konflikt 282 4.2.1 Ausbildung und Wissen der Apotheker 289 4.2.2 Überwachung durch die medizinische Fakultät 294 4.2.3 Apotheker zwischen Rat, Landesherrn und Universität 310 4.3 Die Auseinandersetzung mit jüdischen Ärzten 39 4.3.1 Ausbildung und obrigkeitliche Kontrolle jüdischer Ärzte 334 4.3.2 Anfeindungen, Verleumdungen und Schmähschriften gegen jüdische Ärzte 341 4.3.3 Praktisches Vorgehen gegen jüdische Ärzte 349 4.3.4 Jüdische Verteidigungen und Selbstdarstellungen 36 5 Fazit: Medizinexperten zwischen Universität und Markt 379 Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis 397 Ungedruckte Quellen 397 Inkunabeln und frühe Drucke 400 Gedruckte Quellen 404 Forschungsliteratur 409 Internetadressen 469 Register 470 Personen- und Ortsregister 470 Sachregister 477

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch bietet eine textkritische Edition von Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandīs (st. 619/1222) medizinischem Nahrungsmittellexikon Kitāb al-Aġḏiya wa-l-ašriba mit deutscher Übersetzung und einer Untersuchung zu den Inhalten des Werks und seinem Kontext innerhalb der arabischen Medizinliteratur. This book offers a critical edition of Najīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandī’s (d. 619/1222) medical food encyclopedia Kitāb al-Aghḏiya wa-l-ashriba along with a German translation and a study on the contents of the work and its context within Arabic medical literature.Trade ReviewWinner of 26th World Award for Book of the Year in Iran 2019. "I want to emphasize the importance of this translation that makes this work available to scholars of medical history who are interested in studying Arabic medicine but regrettably do not read Arabic. This translation will offer them an access to Arabic medicine that played an essential role in the development of medicine from Greek civilization to the early modern period in Europe." - Ayman Yasin Atat, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 114/3 (2019) "With her edition, translation and study of al-Samarqandī’s Kitāb al-Aghdhiya wa’l-ashriba, Juliane Müller has produced a very fine scholarly work which excels at virtually all levels — linguistic, historical, technical and material. Her edition of the Arabic text is meticulous, her German translation ingenious, and her various explorations of sometimes uncharted territories are extremely detailed without ever losing sight of the bigger picture. [...] It is to be hoped that Juliane Müller will continue in the future to gift us with many more contributions of such sublime quality." - Oliver Kahl, in: Journal of Semitic Studies 63/2 (2018) "Muller's edition [...] is a most useful addition to scholarship in this field. A wonderful book, a meticulous piece of scholarship, and a rich source of information on a variety of subjects." - Remke Kruk, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 75/1-2 (2018)

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Book SynopsisCet ouvrage étudie, pour la première fois, le mouvement de traduction en persan des sources ayurvédiques qui a eu lieu à partir du XIVe siècle. En parallèle, il analyse les formes d’apprentissage de la culture médicale persane par les savants hindous. This book looks for the first time at the movement of translation of Ayurvedic sources into Persian that took place from the 14th century onwards. In parallel, it analyzes the forms of learning of Persian medical culture by Hindu scholars.Trade Review"Speziales Studie ist ein wichtiger und anregender Beitrag zur überfälligen Erforschung der indo-persischen Wissenschaftskultur und insbesondere des Verhältnisses zwischen den Medizintraditionen der Muslime und Hindus auf dem Subkontinent. Kompetent und kenntnisreich führt der Verfasser auf einer breiten Materialgrundlage von ca. 130 Quellen...in die Geschichte der Wissensübertragung und der Beziehungen zwischen den beiden Kulturen." Susanne Kurz, in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 114/6 (2019), IslamTable of ContentsAvant-propos et remerciements Liste des illustrations Introduction 1 Médecine indienne et culture musulmane : traduction et persanisation du savoir  1.1 Prélude : les traductions de l’ époque abbaside, continuité ou rupture ?  1.2 La culture médicale musulmane en Asie du sud  1.3 Les mouvements de traduction  1.4 L’ étude du savoir indien : contextes disciplinaires et horizons de diffusion  1.5 Science et pouvoir politique : le mécénat des études persanes sur l’ Āyurveda  1.6 Le savoir pratique et la recherche sur la pharmacopée indienne  1.7 Adaptation, appropriation et renouvellement du savoir  1.8 Les genres des textes persans sur l’ Āyurveda  1.9 Les modalités de traduction et la construction du lexique  1.10 La traduction et l’ interprétation de la doctrine ayurvédique  1.11 Médecine, religion et magie  1.12 Les visions discordantes et les critiques du savoir indien 2 Le hakim et le vaidya : médecins, auteurs et traducteurs  2.1 Les médecins musulmans et le savoir indien  2.2 Maîtres et disciples : l’ enseignement de la médecine  2.3 Les médecins indiens au sein de la culture et des institutions musulmanes  2.4 La production scientifique en persan des savants hindous 3 Les études persanes sur l’ Āyurveda : phases et centres d’ activité  3.1 L’ époque des sultanats : le début du mouvement de traduction  3.2 Le sultanats du Deccan et la compétition des savants étrangers  3.3 Le monde moghol jusqu’ à 1707 : stagnation et renouveau  3.4 L’ époque moghole tardive et les États princiers : l’ âge d’ or des pharmacopées  3.5 La médecine vétérinaire : les écrits sur le cheval et sur l’ éléphant 4 Conclusion : l’ impact de la modernité Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisThe Man Who Crucified Himself is the history of a sensational nineteenth-century medical case. In 1805 a shoemaker called Mattio Lovat attempted to crucify himself in Venice. His act raised a furore, and the story spread across Europe. For the rest of the century Lovat’s case fuelled scientific and popular debates on medicine, madness, suicide and religion. Drawing on Italian, German, English and French sources, Maria Böhmer traces the multiple readings of the case and identifies various 'interpretive communities'. Her meticulously researched study sheds new light on Lovat’s case and offers fresh insights on the case narrative as a genre - both epistemic and literary.Trade Review“Overall, Böhmer’s study contributes broadly to scholarship on epistemic genres and specifically to our understanding of the role of case histories in the history of psychiatry.” Alexandra Bamji (University of Leeds), Bull. Hist. Med., 2020, Vol. 94 (3), 527-528 pp. “Maria Böhmer’s The Man Who Crucified Himself is an important contribution to many convergent fields: the history of medicine, and especially surgery; nineteenth century Italian history; the history of medical communication; and, last but not least, the history of one crucial textual genre in medicine, the case, as defined by Gianna Pomata for the early modern period. […] The book is an exciting reading for specialists, but it can also be fruitfully used in the classroom, to illustrate the multiple layers and diverse adventures and uses of medical narratives in the long nineteenth century.” Maria Conforti (History of Medicine and Bioethics, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy), Journal of the History of Medicine, Vol. 75 (3), 2020, 346-347 pp.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 The Man Who Crucified Himself 2 The Storia della crocifissione as an Epistemic Genre 3 Making the Case Travel. Translation, Media, Reading 4 Professional Readings: Religion 5 Professional Readings: Madness 6 Professional Readings: Suicide 7 Popular Readings: Moral Education and Literary Entertainment Epilogue Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDuring the first period of globalization medical ideas and practices originating in China became entangled in the medical activities of other places, sometimes at long distances. They produced effects through processes of alteration once known as translatio, meaning movements in place, status, and meaning. The contributors to this volume examine occasions when intermediaries responded creatively to aspects of Chinese medicine, whether by trying to pass them on or to draw on them in furtherance of their own interests. Practitioners in Japan, at the imperial court, and in early and late Enlightenment Europe therefore responded to translations creatively, sometimes attempting to build bridges of understanding that often collapsed but left innovation in their wake. Contributors are Marta Hanson, Gianna Pomata, Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros, Wei Yu Wayne Tan, Margaret Garber, Daniel Trambaiolo, and Motoichi Terada. ​​​​​​​Winner of the J. Worth Estes Prize 2021 awarded by the American Association for the History of Medicine: Beatriz Puentes-Ballesteros, “Chocolate in China: Interweaving cultural histories of an imperfectly connected world,” in Harold Cook (ed.), Translation at Word: Chinese Medicine in the First Global Age (Leiden, Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2020).Table of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Translating Chinese Medical Ways in the Early Modern Period   Harold J. Cook  1 Travels of a Chinese Pulse Treatise: The Latin and French Translations of the Tuzhu maijue bianzhen 圖註脈訣辨真 (1650s–1730s)   Marta Hanson and Gianna Pomata  2 Chocolate in China: Interweaving Cultural Histories of an Imperfectly Connected World   Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros  3 Rediscovering Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura: The Transformation of Chinese Acupuncture in Japan   Wei Yu Wayne Tan  4 Domesticating Moxa: The Reception of Moxibustion in a Late Seventeenth-Century German Medical Journal   Margaret D. Garber  5 Epidemics and Epistemology in Early Modern Japan: Japanese Responses to Chinese Writings on Warm Epidemics and Sand-Rashes   Daniel Trambaiolo  6 The Montpellier Version of Sphygmology: Classical Chinese Medicine and Vitalism   Motoichi Terada Index

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Book SynopsisMedicine and Maladies explores the aesthetic, medical, and socio-political contexts that informed depictions of illness and disease in nineteenth-century France. Eleven essays by specialists in nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture probe the acts of writing, reading, and viewing corporeal afflictions across the works of medical practitioners, surgeons, pharmacists, novelists, and artists. Tracing scientific discourse in literary narratives and signalling references to fiction in medical texts, the contributions to this interdisciplinary volume invite us to rethink the relationship between the humanities and the medical sciences.

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Book SynopsisThe Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyāʾ, the Book on the Prohibition to Bury the Living, written by the Nestorian physician ʿUbaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšūʿ (d. c. 1060 CE), deals with the causes, signs and treatments of apparent death. Based on a short pseudo-Galenic treatise, whose Greek original is lost, ʿUbaidallāh’s Arabic commentary is a comprehensive and in many ways unique piece of scientific writing that moreover promotes a psychological understanding of physical illness. Oliver Kahl’s present book offers a critical Arabic edition with annotated English translation of ʿUbaidallāh’s work on apparent death, framed by a detailed introductory study and extensive glossaries covering all relevant terms; for comparative purposes, the Arabic and Hebrew recensions of the lost Greek prototype are presented in an appendix.Trade Review"K. hat mit seiner philologisch soliden Edition, die durch ausführliche Indizes bereichert ist, ein frühes und wertvolles Zeugnis der gräko-arabischen Komponente der arabisch-islamischen Kultur zugänglich gemacht...Darüber hinaus enthält der Kommentar des ʿUbaidallāh eine Fülle interessanter Einzelheiten zu Zeitgenossen und weitere persönliche Reminiszenzen, auch zur eigenen ärztlichen Praxis." Gotthard Strohmaier, in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 114/4–5 (2019): 351–381Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction  1 ʿUbaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšūʿ  2 The Book on Apparent Death  Plates Text and Translation Bibliography Indices Introduction to the Indices Index of Medicine and Pharmacy Index of People and Places Index of Work Titles Index of Miscellaneous Terms Index of Botanical Names Appendix: The Pseudo-Galenic Treatise  1 The Arabic Recension  2 The Hebrew Recension (by Gerrit Bos)

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Book SynopsisHealers in the Making investigates medical instruction at the University of Bologna using the lens of practical medicine, focusing on both anatomical and surgical instruction and showing that teaching medicine between the late thirteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries was a consciously constructed and vigorous project that required ongoing local political and cultural negotiations beyond books and curriculum. Using municipal, institutional, and medical texts, Kira Robison examines the outward structures of academic and civic power involved in the formation of medical authority and illuminates the innovations in practical medical pedagogy that occurred during this era. In this way, Robison re-examines academic medicine, the professors, and students, returning them to the context of the medical marketplace within a dynamic and flourishing urban landscape. See inside the book.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Maps, Figures and Tables Notes on Names, Dates, and Money Introduction 1 Methodology: Anatomy, Surgery, and Practical Medicine 2 Historiography 3 Sources and Context 4 Outline of Chapters 1 Hierarchies of Instruction: Traditions of Good Doctoring in Medieval Medical Education 1 Introduction 2 Practical Medicine 3 Medicine and the City 4 Medical Hegemonies 5 Ties with the City 6 Conclusion 2 Monopolies of Instruction: Retaining and Maintaining Physicians at Bologna 1 Introduction 2 Changes in Student Autonomy 3 Citizenship 4 Exams and Licensures 5 Membership of the Collegium De Arte Et Medicine 6 Salaries and Teachers  6.1 Municipal Control of Salaries  6.2 Repetitor and Lecture Universitatis  6.3 ;Regular Faculty 7 Conclusion 3 Avenues of Instruction: Space and Power in Anatomical Education 1 Introduction 2 1319: A Criminal Trial 3 1405: Student Statutes 4 1540: An Anatomy Lesson 5 1639: Memories of the Past 6 Conclusion 4 Audiences of Instruction: Teaching Anatomy through Books and Lecture 1 Introduction 2 Experience and Observation 3 Making a Standard 4 The Cadaver Survey  4.1 The Cadaver Survey after Mondino: Lectures to Text and Back Again   4.1.1 Speaking the Body: The Cadaver Survey in Lecture   4.1.2 From Lecture to Text: Manfredi’s Anatomy for the Layman 133   4.2.3 Gauging an Audience: The Cadaver Survey for Students and Professors 136 5 Conclusion Conclusion Appendix A Tables for Chapter 2 Appendix B Inscriptions, Busts, and Statues from Before 1530 in the Anatomical Theater of Bologna Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMedicine and the Inquisition offers a wide-ranging and nuanced account of the role played by the Roman, Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions in shaping medical learning and practice in the period from 1500 to 1850. Until now, learned medicine has remained a secondary subject in scholarship on Inquisitions. This volume delves into physicians’ contributions to the inquisitorial machinery as well as the persecution of medical practitioners and the censorship of books of medicine. Although they are commonly depicted as all-pervasive systems of repression, the Inquisitions emerge from these essays as complex institutions. Authors investigate how boundaries between the medical and the religious were negotiated and transgressed in different contexts. The book sheds new light on the intellectual and social world of early modern physicians, paying particular attention to how they complied with, and at times undermined, ecclesiastical control and the hierarchies of power in which the medical profession was embedded. Contributors are Hervé Baudry, Bradford A. Bouley, Alessandra Celati, Maria Pia Donato, Martha Few, Guido M. Giglioni, Andrew Keitt, Hannah Marcus, and Timothy D. Walker. This volume includes the articles originally published in Volume XXIII, Nos. 1-2 (2018) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine with one additional chapter by Timothy D. Walker and an updated introduction.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Medicine and the Inquisition in the Early Modern World: Introduction  Maria Pia Donato The Mind of the Censor: Girolamo Rossi, a Physician and Censor for the Congregation of the Index  Hannah Marcus The Heart of Heresy: Inquisition, Medicine, and False Sanctity  Bradford A. Bouley Anatomy of a Scandal: Physicians Facing the Inquisition in Late Seventeenth-Century Rome  Maria Pia Donato Contra medicos: Physicians Facing the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Venice  Alessandra Celati Medicine and the Inquisition in Portugal (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries): People and Books  Hervé Baudry Between Galen and St Paul: How Juan Huarte de San Juan Responded to Inquisitorial Censorship  Guido Giglioni Medical Martyrs: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Early Modern Inquisitorial Persecution of Spanish Physicians  Andrew Keitt “Speaking with the Fire”: The Inquisition Confronts Mesoamerican Divination to Treat Child Illness in Sixteenth-Century Guatemala  Martha Few Physicians and Surgeons in the Service of the Portuguese Inquisition: Twelve Years After  Timothy D. Walker Index

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Book SynopsisAttributing Excellence in Medicine discusses the aura around the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It analyzes the social processes and contingent factors leading to recognition and reputation in science and medicine. This volume will help the reader to better understand the dynamics of the attribution of excellence throughout the 20th century. Contributors are Massimiano Bucchi, Fabio De Sio, Jacalyn Duffin, Heiner Fangerau, Thorsten Halling, Nils Hansson, David S. Jones, Gustav Källstrand, Ulrich Koppitz, Pauline Mattsson, Katarina Nordqvist, Scott H. Podolsky, Thomas Schlich, and Sven Widmalm.Table of ContentsForeword  Jeffrey Flier List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling and Heiner Fangerau Part 1: The Award and Beyond 1 Commemorating Excellence: The Nobel Prize and the Secular Religion of Science  Jacalyn Duffin 2 More Than a Prize: The Creation of the Nobel System  Gustav Källstrand 3 Hitler’s Boycott: Cultural Politics and the Rhetoric of Neutrality  Sven Widmalm Part 2: Laureates and Nominees 4 From Global Recognition to Global Health: Antimicrobials and the Nobel Prize, 1901–2015  Scott H. Podolsky 5 Discovery or Reputation? Jacques Loeb and the Role of Nomination Networks  Heiner Fangerau, Thorsten Halling and Nils Hansson 6 Defining ‘Cutting-edge’ Excellence: Awarding Nobel Prizes (or not) to Surgeons  Nils Hansson, David S. Jones and Thomas Schlich Part 3: Reverberation and Commercialization 7 John C. Eccles’ Conversion and the Meaning of ‘Authority’  Fabio De Sio, Nils Hansson and Ulrich Koppitz 8 The Laureate in the Spotlight: Renato Dulbecco and the Public Image of Science  Massimiano Bucchi 9 Nobel Prize Awarded Discoveries and Commercialization: The Role of the Laureates  Katarina Nordqvist and Pauline Mattsson Index

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Book SynopsisThe terminology in medieval Hebrew medical literature (original works and translations) has been sorely neglected by modern research. Medical terminology is virtually missing from the standard dictionaries of the Hebrew language, including Ha-Millon he-ḥadash, composed by Abraham Even-Shoshan. Ben-Yehuda’s dictionary is the only one that contains a significant number of medical terms. Unfortunately, Ben-Yehuda’s use of the medieval medical texts listed in the dictionary’s introduction is inconsistent at best. The only dictionary exclusively devoted to medical terms, both medieval and modern, is that by A.M. Masie, entitled Dictionary of Medicine and Allied Sciences. However, like the dictionary by Ben-Yehuda, it only makes occasional use of the sources registered in the introduction and only rarely differentiates between the various medieval translators. Further, since Masie’s work is alphabetized according to the Latin or English term, it cannot be consulted for Hebrew terms. The Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language, which is currently being created by the Academy of the Hebrew Language, has not been taken into account consistently as it is not a dictionary in the proper sense of the word. Moreover, consultation of this resource suggests that it is generally deficient in medieval medical terminology. The Bar Ilan Responsa Project has also been excluded as a source, despite the fact that it contains a larger number of medieval medical terms than the Historical Dictionary. The present dictionary has two major objectives: 1) to map the medical terminology featured in medieval Hebrew medical works, in order to facilitate study of medical terms, especially those terms that do not appear in the existing dictionaries, and terms that are inadequately represented. 2) to identify the medical terminology used by specific authors and translators, to enable the identification of anonymous medical material.

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Book SynopsisKnowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of ten essays in which a team of international scholars describe and interpret Tibetan medical knowledge. With subjects ranging from the relationship between Tibetan and Greco-Arab conceptions of the bodily humors, to the rebranding of Tibetan precious pills for cross-cultural consumption in the People’s Republic of China, each chapter explores representations and transformations of medical concepts across different historical, cultural, and/or intellectual contexts. Taken together this volume offers new perspectives on both well-known Tibetan medical texts and previously unstudied sources, blazing new trails and expanding the scope of the academic study of Tibetan medicine. Contributors include: Henk W.A. Blezer, Yang Ga, Tony Chui, Katharina Sabernig, Tawni Tidwell, Tsering Samdrup, Carmen Simioli, William A. McGrath, Susannah Deane and Barbara GerkeTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Navigating the Ocean of Tibetan Medical Literature  William A. McGrath A Note on Transcription, Transliteration, and Bibliography List of Figures Notes on Contributors Part 1: The Vicissitudes of Meaning in Context 1 A New Sense of (Dark) Humor in Tibet: Brown Phlegm and Black Bile  Henk Blezer 2 A Preliminary Study on the Biography of Yutok Yönten Gönpo the Elder: Reflections on the Origins of Tibetan Medicine  Yang Ga 3 “Secret Medicine” in the Writings of Sanggyé Gyatso: the Encoded Esoteric Material of Therapeutics  Tony Chui 4 Visceral Anatomy as Depicted in Tibetan Medicine  Katharina Sabernig 5 The Modern Biomedical Conception of Cancer and Its Many Potential Correlates in the Tibetan Medical Tradition  Tawni Tidwell Part 2: Medicine and Religion in Context 6 The Nine-Fold Magical Cord Cycle: Investigating ’Phrul gyi the gu brgu skor, a Wartime Medical Manual  Tsering Samdrup 7 Knowledge, Imagery, and the Treatment of Communicable Disease in the Vase of the Amṛta of Immortality: a Preliminary Analysis of a Nyingma Medical Corpus  Carmen Simioli 8 Tantric Divination and Empirical Diagnosis: a Genealogy of Channel Prasenā Rituals in the Tibetan Medical Tradition  William A. McGrath 9 Madness and the Spirits: Examining the Role of Spirits in Mental Illness in the Tibetan Communities of Darjeeling  Susannah Deane 10 Material Presentations and Cultural Drug Translations of Contemporary Tibetan Precious Pills  Barbara Gerke Index

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Book SynopsisTizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an extraordinary man to produce novel insights into the ordinary practice of biomedicine in colonial Central Africa. His investigation of therapeutic routines in surgery, maternity care, psychiatry, and the treatment of dysentery and leprosy reveals the incoherent nature of biomedicine and not just in Africa. Reading rich archival sources against and along the grain, the author combines concepts that appeal to those interested in the history of medicine and colonialism. Through the microcosm of the hospital, Zumthurm brings to light the social worlds of Gabonese patients as well as European staff. By refusing to easily categorize colonial medical encounters, the book challenges our understanding of biomedicine as solely domineering or interactive.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Introduction  1 Utilizing a Colonial Archive in Gunsbach, Alsace  2 Theorizing Hospitals in Africa and the Practice of Biomedicine  3 The Context: Trade, Politics, and Health in Colonial Lambaréné  4 Albert Schweitzer and His Hospital in Lambaréné: a Short Historiography 1 Between Pragmatism and Order: Medical Organization and Daily Routine  1 The Hospital Prior to 1927: Establishment and Adaptation  2 Patient Numbers: Reflecting Global and Local Events in Orderly Records  3 Patients and Their Stay: Strict Conditions, Varied Degrees of Enforcement  4 Patient Motivation: Conceptions of Health and Other Treatments  5 Staff from Europe: Clear Guidelines and Flexible Duties  6 African Staff: Versatile Training and Reliable Service  7 Staff in Comparison  8 Infrastructure: Necessity and Maintenance  9 Conclusion 2 In and Out of Control: Technologies and Patients in Surgery  1 Surgery, Technology, and Control  2 Surgery at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital: Context and Development  3 Controlling the Surgical Arena: Actors and Organization  4 Technologies of Control: the Example of Lamps  5 Controlling Bacteria: Asepsis and Manual Labor  6 Controlling Patients via Technology: The Example of Anesthesia  7 Beyond the Operating Theater: Limits and Implications of Control  8 Conclusion 3 Dimensions of Ignorance: Discourses and Practices of Obstetrics  1 Depopulation, Domesticity, Ignorance: Framing Maternity Care in Colonial Africa  2 Maternity Services in Colonial Gabon and at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital  3 Ignoring Training: Recruitment Priorities  4 Giving Birth at and Outside the Hospital  5 Ignoring Context: Maternity Care as a Medical Service  6 Key Areas of Ignorance: Medication and Feeding  7 Conclusion 4 Trial and Error: Drugs and the Treatment of Infectious Diseases  1 Experiments in a Laboratory? The Treatment of Leprosy in Colonial Africa  2 Leprosy in Lambaréné  3 Dysentery in Africa and Lambaréné  4 Trials and Errors: the Use of Pharmaceuticals at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital  5 Conclusion 5 Healing and ‘Civilizing’: Community and Safety in Psychiatric Care  1 Psychiatric Services and Ideology in Colonial Africa and at the Hospital  2 The Mentally Ill in Colonial Gabon and at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital  3 Treating the Mentally Ill at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital: Drugs and Community  4 Accommodating the Mentally Ill at the Hospital: Perspectives on Safety  5 Conclusion 6 Conclusions  1 Connecting Concepts: the Incoherence of Biomedical Practices  2 The Practice of Global Biomedicine: Schweitzer and the Value of the Local  3 Taxonomies of Global Health and the Albert Schweitzer Hospital Bibliography Archival Sources  Interviews  Published References  Index

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Book SynopsisTracing Hospital Boundaries explores, for the first time, how the forces of both integration and segregation shaped hospitals and their communities between the eleventh and twentieth centuries in Europe, North America and Africa. Within this broad comparative context it also shines a light on a number of case studies from Southeastern Europe. The eleven chapters show how people’s access to, and experience of, healthcare institutions was affected by social, cultural and economic, as well as medical, dynamics. These same factors intersected with developing healthcare technologies to shape hospital design and location, as well as internal policies and practices. The volume produces a new history of the hospital in which boundaries – both physical and symbolic – are frequently contested and redrawn. Contributors are Irena Benyovsky Latin, David Gentilcore, Annemarie Kinzelbach, Rina Kralj-Brassard, Ivana Lazarević, Clement Masakure, Anna Peterson, Egidio Priani, Gordan Ravančić, Jonathan Reinarz, Jane Stevens Crawshaw, David Theodore, Christina Vanja, George Weisz, and Valentina Živković.Table of Contents  Acknowledgements   List of Figures   Notes on Contributors  Introduction: Hospitals, Integration and Segregation    Jane Stevens Crawshaw and Gordan Ravančić Part 1: Patient Identity and Experience  1 Beyond the City’s Walls: The Lepers of Narbonne and Siena before the Black Death    Anna M. Peterson  2 Leprosaria: The Simultaneity of Segregation and Integration in Early Modern Southern German Towns    Annemarie Kinzelbach  3 The Role of Segregation and Integration in Identity Formation for Foundlings in Early Modern Dubrovnik    Rina Kralj-Brassard and Ivana Lazarević  4 “San Servolo Lunatic!”: Segregation and Integration in the Life Cycle of Pellagra Patients at Venice’s Provincial Asylums (1842–1912)    David Gentilcore and Egidio Priani Part 2: Hospital Form and Organisation  5 Shelter and Custody. Identifying and treating Physical and Mental Disabilities in Eighteenth-Century Hessian High Hospitals    Christina Vanja  6 From Isolation to Integration: the Institutional Treatment of Burns Patients in Britain, c.1845–1950    Jonathan Reinarz  7 Segregating or Integrating Chronic Patients in Twentieth-century American Hospitals    George Weisz  8 “Dirty Dirty Dirt”: Automating Segregation in the Friesen Concept Hospital    David Theodore Part 3: Hospital Location and Context  9 Sacral Topography, Charity and Hospitals in Late Medieval Kotor    Valentina Živković  10 Female Piety and Gendered Spaces: Women’s Hospitals in Renaissance Dubrovnik    Irena Benyovsky Latin  11 Government Hospitals as a Microcosm: Integration and Segregation in Salisbury Hospital, Rhodesia, 1890s–1950    Clement Masakure   Thematic bibliography   Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the interdependencies between visual technologies and epistemology with regard to our perception of the medical body. It explores the relationships between the imagination, the body, and concrete forms of visual representations: Ranging from the Renaissance paradigm of anatomy, to Foucault’s “birth of the clinic” and the institutionalised construction of a “medical gaze”; from “visual” archives of madness, psychiatric art collections, the politicisation and economisation of the body, to the post-human in mass media representations. Contributions to this volume investigate medical bodies as historical, technological, and political constructs, constituted where knowledge formation and visual cultures intersect. Contributors are: Axel Fliethmann, Michael Hau, Birgit Lang, Carolyn Lau, Heikki Lempa, stef lenk, Joanna Madloch, Barry Murnane, Jill Redner, Claudia Stein, Elizabeth Stephens, Corinna Wagner, and Christiane Weller.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Intoduction  Axel Fliethmann and Christiane Weller PART 1: The Epistemology of Anatomy and Aesthetics 1 Rembrandt and the Dutch Cartesians: The..Medical Body and the Body of Christ in the Anatomy Lessons  Jill Redner 2 Pathologies of Imagination and Medical Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe  Axel Fliethmann 3 Re-Imagining the “Birthing Machine:” Art and Anatomy in Obstetric and Anatomical Models Made by Women  Elizabeth Stephens 4 The Body in Motion: The Image of Man in Physical Education in Late Eighteenth-Century Schnepfenthal  Heikki Lempa PART 2: Identity and Visual (De)Formation 5 Photography, Arrested Development, and the Facial Expression of Emotion  Corinna Wagner 6 The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Medical Portraiture  Joanna Madloch 7 Picturing Pathology: An Affirmative Reading of Lam Qua’s Medical Portraiture  Carolyn Lau 8 “The Quickening:” Embryonic Stages in Visualising and Understanding Depression and Anxiety  stef lenk PART 3: Power, Consumption and the Pathological Body 9 Capitalism without Desire: Economic Thinking and the Visualisation of the Biomedical Body ca. 1900  Claudia Stein 10 The Pitfalls of Utilitarianism: Capillary Images and Biopolitical Interventionism during the Weimar Republic  Michael Hau 11 Sex Murder, Photographic Evidence, and the Weimar Cultural Imagination  Birgit Lang 12 Imagining Madness: The Conceptualisation of Mental Illness in Psychiatric Art Collections  Christiane Weller 13 Biomedia in the Flesh: Imagining Biomedical Interventions as Horror  Barry Murnane Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisKnowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary is intended for historians of medicine and interpretation, and explores the dynamic between scholastic rhetoric and medical knowledge in ancient commentaries on a Mesopotamian Diagnostic Handbook. In line with commentators’ self-fashioning as experts of diverse disciplines, commentaries display intertextuality involving a variety of lexical, astronomical, religious, magic, and literary compositions, while employing patterns of argumentation that resist categorization within any single branch of knowledge. Commentators’ choices of topics and comments, however, sought to harmonize atypical language and ideas in the Handbook with conventional ways of perceiving and describing the sick body in therapeutic recipes. Scholastic rhetoric—supposedly unfettered to any discipline—served in fact as a pretext for affirming current forms of medical knowledge.Trade Review"The two-volume work of John Z. Wee is a welcome new contribution to the discussion of Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform commentaries—an at times complex and, to readers unaware of its intricacies, often opaque textual genre, mainly known from the late time of Cuneiform Culture. (...) The first volume addresses not only Assyriologists but also scholars interested in the history of medicine and the history of interpretation and science. The study presented here includes a great many detailed discussions and presentations of interrelated issues within Mesopotamian commentary literature particularly in relation to the DH and its structure, as well as the context of these commentaries and their arguments in respect to their use and institutional background. Volume two provides the relevant data, presenting a collective edition of all commentaries on the DH so far known. This offers the particular advantage of making all relevant data accessible in a printed, citable form together with detailed philological commentaries and discussions on difficult or peculiar words and phrases." - Eric Schmidtchen, Université de Genève, in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVIII N° 3-4 (2021). "In short, John Wee’s Knowledge and Rhetorical in Medical Commentary in an erudite and refreshing analysis of Sa-gig and its commentaries. Although a highly specialized subject, some of his broader observations about serialization, canonization, textual sources of authority, and embedded variants may be helpful for folks in religious studies thinking about so-called canon, interpretive practices and textual sources of authority, and the boundaries in the ancient world of what we often designate science and literature." - William Brown, in The Biblical Review, 2021.Table of ContentsI. Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary Preface Acknowledgements Contents (Two Volumes) List of Figures Medical Text Labels and Abbreviations Format and Translation Issues Glossary I.1 Introduction to the Sa-gig Commentaries  I.1.1 The Situatedness of Commentaries  I.1.2 The Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig and Its Serialization  I.1.3 Serialized Variants and Their Interpretation  I.1.4 The Presentation of Alternatives in Text Series and Commentaries Chapter Two: Commentary and Scholastic Rhetoric I.2.1 Commentary Designations and Scribal Actors  I.2.1.1 “Glossary” (ṣâtu)  I.2.1.2 “Oral Lore” (šūt pî)  I.2.1.3 “Readings” (malsûtu)  I.2.1.4 “Questionings” (mašʾaltu)  I.2.1.5 “From the Mouth of the Ummânu-scholar” (ša pî ummâni)  I.2.1.6 Patterns of Commentary Designations I.2.2 Textual Sources of Authority  I.2.2.1 Lexical Text Citations  I.2.2.2 Narratival Intertextuality I.2.2 Forms of Argumentation  I.2.3.1 Two-Member Arguments  I.2.3.2 Multiple Member Arguments  I.2.3.3 Single Member Arguments I.2.4 Exemplar and License in Scholastic Hermeneutics Chapter Three: Commentary and Medical Knowledge I.3.1 Epistemic Progression in Medical Practice and Texts  I.3.1.1 The Therapeutic Tradition  I.3.1.2 Structuring the Diagnostic Handbook I.3.2 Harmonizing Texts and Phenomena  I.3.2.1 Knowledge Assumptions in Topic Choice  I.3.2.2 The Pericope and Omissions from Topics  I.3.2.3 Comment Choice and Argument as Pretext I.3.1 Habits of Use and the Cuneiform Handbook I.4 Conclusion: Scholasticism and the Boundaries for Interpretation Appendix One: Embedded Variants in the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig Appendix Two: Transliterations of Medical Texts Bibliography Index of Excerpts (Two Volumes) II. Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig Preface Acknowledgements Contents (Two Volumes) Medical Text Labels and Abbreviations Format and Translation Issues Chapter One: Edition of the Sa-gig Commentaries II.1.1 Commentary Sa-gig 1A II.1.2 Commentary Sa-gig 1B II.1.3 Commentary Sa-gig 1C II.1.4 Commentary Sa-gig 1D II.1.5 Commentary Sa-gig 1–3 II.1.6 Commentary Sa-gig 3A II.1.7 Commentary Sa-gig 3B II.1.8 Commentary Sa-gig 3C II.1.9 Commentary Sa-gig 4A II.1.10 Commentary Sa-gig 4B II.1.11 Commentary Sa-gig 4C II.1.12 Commentary Sa-gig 5 II.1.13 Commentary Sa-gig 7A II.1.14 Commentary Sa-gig 7B II.1.15 Commentary Sa-gig 7Ca II.1.16 Commentary Sa-gig 7Cb II.1.17 Commentary Sa-gig 7Cc (?) II.1.18 Commentary Sa-gig 10 & 11 II.1.19 Commentary Sa-gig 13+ II.1.20 Commentary Sa-gig 14 II.1.21 Commentary Sa-gig 18 II.1.22 Commentary Sa-gig 19 II.1.23 Commentary Sa-gig 21 & 22a II.1.24 Commentary Sa-gig 23 II.1.25 Commentary Sa-gig 29 II.1.26 Commentary Sa-gig 34 II.1.27 Commentary Sa-gig 36 II.1.28 Commentary Sa-gig 39 II.1.29 Commentary Sa-gig 40A II.1.30 Commentary Sa-gig 40B Chapter Two: Commentary Notations II.2.1 Disjunction Sign II.2.2 “The Case of / Where” (ša) II.2.3 “Which It Said” (ša iqbû) II.2.4 “As in” (libbû) II.2.5 “Complement to” (IGI / pāni) II.2.6 “(Points) to” (ana) II.2.7 “The Usual (Meaning)” (kayyān) II.2.8 Other Notations Photographs Bibliography Index of Excerpts (Two Volumes)

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Book SynopsisRead an interview with Karen Thornber. In Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care, Karen Laura Thornber analyzes how narratives from diverse communities globally engage with a broad variety of diseases and other serious health conditions and advocate for empathic, compassionate, and respectful care that facilitates healing and enables wellbeing. The three parts of this book discuss writings from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania that implore societies to shatter the devastating social stigmas which prevent billions from accessing effective care; to increase the availability of quality person-focused healthcare; and to prioritize partnerships that facilitate healing and enable wellbeing for both patients and loved ones. Thornber’s Global Healing remaps the contours of comparative literature, world literature, the medical humanities, and the health humanities. Watch a video interview with Thornber by the Mahindra Humanities Center, part of their conversations on Covid-19. Read an interview with Thornber on Brill's Humanities Matter blog.Trade Review"At once a vigorous re-framing of Medical Humanities, and a vigorous challenge to World Literature as it is currently defined, Global Healing offers a new geography, a new methodology, and a new archive, connecting the Americas to Asia and Africa, and, through that expanded sphere of analysis, speaking to the world's health crisis with a new urgency and authority." - Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University "All too infrequently a book is published that redirects the inquiries of multiple fields. This is such a book. Global Healing is an extraordinarily huge book not merely in word count but far more so in scope, depth, and vision. Global vision is easy to say but extremely difficult to achieve. Global Healing does so. It is essential reading for those working in Asian studies, African studies, global studies, and especially medical humanities, health humanities, and bioethics." - Jing-Bao Nie, University of Otago "Karen Thornber has written a tour de force. It is difficult to imagine a book more sweeping in its scope and successful in its ambitions. Global Healing is essential reading for health humanists, as well as literary critics, historians, and health professionals who think seriously about the promise of the humanities for health." - Sari Altschuler, Northeastern University, author of The Medical Imagination "Karen Thornber’s Global Healing is a major achievement that will have a critical impact on both the medical humanities and global literary studies. Ranging across traditional boundaries of east and west, north and south, with erudition, clarity, and compassion, Thornber powerfully demonstrates how literature illuminates the most essential elements of the experience of illness, as well as the limits of our medical and social approaches to its alleviation." - Allan M. Brandt, Harvard University, author of The Cigarette Century "Karen Thornber has written the most extraordinary book. It is an account of global literature written from and by those experiencing, caring for, and thinking with pain, suffering and healing. But pride of place goes to works in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Urdu, Arabic, and by writers in Africa, Oceania, Latin America and South Asia about whom even experts in global health and medical humanities will know very little. Counterposing these works with deep and original readings of Sontag, Roth, Coetzee, Fadiman, Gawande, and other well-known Western writers leads to surprising and powerful insights on the human experiences of sickness and care that will convince anyone who needs convincing how essential comparative literature is in the current debates on health care. Reading footnotes that review telling original accounts of human experiences in Korean and what happens to them when translated into Urdu, Chinese and English will upset taken for granted theories and suggest new ones. This is especially true for stigma and leprosy, AIDS, and dementia. But this is not only a book about ideas, but a vade mecum of actions, reactions, reforms, advocacy and policy. A veritable museum of global literatures on what the human experience and meanings of health, suffering and care are that can claim greater comparative cross- cultural validity than anything I have read. An immense and unique achievement!" Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University, author of The Soul of CareTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  1Comparative Literature, World Literature, Global Literature  2Literature and Medicine, Medical and Health Humanities  3The Chapters Part 1: Shattering Stigmas Introduction: Exposing Stigmas  1Legacies of Leprosy  1Leprosy, Christianity, Europe  2Imperialism, Segregation, Hawai‘i, Nigeria  3Leprosy and East Asia  4Propagating Prejudices  5Countering Violence  5.1Leprosy Narratives and Hawai‘i  5.2Japanese and Korean Stories of Leprosy  5.3Paradise Reconsidered in Yi Ch’ŏngjun’s Your Paradise  5.4Betrayal and the Urdu Translation of Your Paradise  5.5Leprosaria as Refuge – Ola Rotimi’s Hopes of the Living Dead  2AIDS, National Fear, Literary Production  1HIV/AIDS – The Global Epidemic  2South Africa – Silence, Secrets, Accusations  3Tanzania and Kenya – Denials, Allegations, Vulnerability  4China – Innocence, Guilt, Social Control  5The United States – Indictments, Activism, Understanding  3AIDSStigmas, Fear, Care  1Deterring Advocacy, Activism, and Education  2Deferring Responsibility  3Obstructing Timely Testing and Medical Treatment  4Forestalling Support  5Destroying Landscapes  Entr’acte: Confronting the Stigmas of Alzheimer’s Part 2: Humanizing Healthcare Introduction: Person-Focused Care – Advocacy, Respect, Compassion, Empathy, Healing  1Calls for Patient-Centered Care  2Person-Focused Care – Empathy, Cultural Humility, Compassion, Healing  3Challenges to Person-Focused Care  4Narrative Interventions  4Contrasts in Care  1Exposing Disparities  2Asserting Humanity  3Voicing Despair  4Articulating Change  5Speaking For, Not With  1Stories Dismissed  2Stories without Words  3Stories without Memories  4Differences Denied  6 Medically Treating, Not Healing  1Transforming Medicine – Women Physicians and Healing  2Saving without Healing  3Temporarily Curing without Healing  4Accentuating Violence, Impeding Healing  7Interventions in Dying  1Easing Death  1.1On the Right to Decline Death-Prolonging Care  1.2On the Right to Life-Ending Care  2Conundrums of Cure  2.1Sacrifices in Discovering and Developing Cures  2.2The Paradoxical Precariousness of Cure Part 3: Prioritizing Partnerships Introduction: Healing Partnerships  8Promoting Partnerships in Living, Sharing Care  1Integrating Support – Patients, Loved Ones, Health Professionals, Societies  2Truth Telling – Patients, Loved Ones, Health Professionals  3Eschewing Medical Treatment – Patients, Loved Ones  4All about Elephants  9Providing Partnerships in Dying, Easing Death  1Partnerships Interrupted  2Partnerships Criminalized  3Partnerships Redefined Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChinese Medicine Periodicals from the Late Qing and Republican China: An Overview includes an introduction of 49 periodicals on Chinese medicine published in the late Qing and Republican periods in China. These 49 periodicals, both aged and rare, were compiled together in collaboration with over 50 libraries, and reprinted by Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House in 2012. In 2017, Brill developed an online version of this collection. Considered one of the best sources for observing the changing nature of medical practice and education during the late Qing and Republican eras in China, this collection provides unique insight into not only the modern transformation of Chinese medicine, but also the larger role of medicine in Chinese society. The collection of 49 periodicals on Chinese medicine is available online, full-text searchable. For more information on the online database, please visit the Brill webpage.Table of ContentsIntroduction Overviews of Chinese Medicine Periodicals from the Late Qing and Republican Periods 1. Report of the Academy of Beneficial Aid (Liji xuetang bao 利濟學堂報) 2. Medical News (Yixue bao 醫學報) 3. Shaoxing Medical Journal (Shaoxing yiyao xuebao 紹興醫藥學報) 4. The International Medical Journal (Zhongxi yixue bao 中西醫學報) 5. Shenzhou Medical Journal (Shenzhou yiyaoxue bao 神州醫藥學報) 6. Medical Magazine (Yixue zazhi 醫學雜誌) 7. Shanghai’s Chinese Medicine Magazine (Zhongyi zazhi 中醫雜誌) (including Shanghai’s National Medicine Magazine [Guoyi zazhi 國醫雜誌]) 8. Triple-Three Medical Journal (San-san yibao 三三醫報) 9. Shaoxing Medical Monthly (Shaoxing yiyao yuebao 紹興醫藥月報) 10. Shenyang Medical Magazine (Shenyang yixue zazhi 瀋陽醫學雜誌) 11. Guangzhou’s Chinese Medicine Magazine (Zhongyi zazhi 中醫雜誌) 12. Annals of the Medical World (Yijie chunqiu 醫界春秋) 13. Chinese Medical Monthly (Zhongguo yixue yuekan 中國醫學月刊) 14. Apricot Grove Medical Monthly (Xinglin yixue yuebao 杏林醫學月報) 15. Guangdong Medical Monthly (Guangdong yiyao yuebao 廣東醫藥月報) 16. Chinese Medical World (Zhongyi shijie 中醫世界) 17. Self-Strengthening Medical Monthly (Ziqiang yixue yuekan 自強醫學月刊) (Self-Strengthening Medical Journal [Ziqiang yikan 自強醫刊]) 18. The Record of Chinese Medical Guidance (Zhongyi zhidao lu 中醫指導錄) 19. Hong Kong’s National Medicine Magazine (Guoyi zazhi 國醫雜誌) 20. Straight Talk from the Medical World (Yilin yi’e 醫林一谔) 21. Shenzhou National Medicine Journal (Shenzhou guoyi xuebao 神州國醫學報) 22. National Medicine Bulletin (Guoyi gongbao 國醫公報) 23. Contemporary Medicine Monthly (Xiandai yiyao yuekan) 現代醫藥月刊 (Contemporary Medicine [Xiandai yiyao 現代醫藥]) 24. Acumoxa Magazine (Zhenjiu zazhi 針灸雜誌) 25. Guanghua Medical Magazine (Guanghua yiyao zazhi 光華醫藥雜誌) 26. Contemporary Chinese Medicine (Xiandai zhongyi 現代中醫) (Contemporary Chinese Medicine Magazine [Xiandaei zhongyi zazhi 現代中醫雜誌]) 27. Tieqiao’s Medical Monthly (Tieqiao yixue yuekan 鐵樵醫學月刊) 28. Suzhou National Medicine Magazine (Suzhou guoyi zazhi 蘇州國醫雜誌) 29. Correct Words on National Medicine (Guoyi zhengyan 國醫正言) 30. Chinese Medicine’s New Life (Zhongyi xin shengming 中醫新生命) 31. Beiping Medical Monthly (Beiping yiyao yuekan 北平醫藥月刊) 32. Chinese-Western Medicine (Zhongxi yiyao 中西醫藥) 33. Cultured Medicine Semimonthly (Wenyi banyuekan 文醫半月刊) 34. National Medical Literature (Guoyi wenxian 國醫文獻) 35. Mainstay of National Medicine Monthly (Guoyi dizhu yuekan 國醫砥柱月刊) 36. Chinese Medicine (Zhongguo yixue 中國醫學) 37. Journal of New Chinese Medicine (Xin zhongyi kan 新中醫刊) 38. Beijing Medical Monthly (Beijing yiyao yuekan 北京醫藥月刊) 39. A New Voice on National Medicinals (Guoyao xinsheng 國藥新聲) 40. National Medicine Guide (Guoyi daobao 國醫導報) 41. Reviving Chinese Medicine (Fuxing zhongyi 復興中醫) 42. Chinese Medicine Monthly (Zhongguo yiyao yuekan 中國醫藥月刊) 43. Chinese Medicine (Zhongguo yixue 中國醫學) 44. Chinese Women Physicians (Zhongguo nüyi 中國女醫) 45. Medical Literature (Yiwen 醫文) 46. New China Medicine Monthly (Xin Zhonghua yiyao yuekan 新中華醫藥月刊) 47. West China Medical Magazine (Huaxi yiyao zazhi 華西醫藥雜誌) 48. Medical History Magazine (Yishi zazhi 醫史雜誌) Appendix: A Humanist Analysis on Periodicals of Chinese Medicine from the Late Qing and Republican Periods

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Book SynopsisIn Crocologia – A Detailed Study of Saffron, the King of Plants, Sally Francis and Maria Teresa Ramandi present the first translation into English of Johann Ferdinand Hertodt’s seminal 1671 work Crocologia, a book uniquely devoted to the medical uses of saffron. Hertodt discusses saffron’s origin, related species, cultivation, selection, properties and lists all its pharmaceutical preparations. Hertodt then journeys through diseases of the human body, presenting saffron-containing formulae for their treatment. The two authors complement the translation with a biography of Hertodt, and detail saffron’s botany, current production, uses, its changing reputation as a drug, and review findings from new medical research. There is a full Glossary, and translation of a contemporary animadversion of Crocologia by Hertodt’s rival, Wenzel Maximilian Ardensbach.Trade Review"This scholarly edition is likely to interest botanists, pharmacologists, and historians of natural history, medicine and pharmacognosy." E. Charles Nelson, Society for the History of Natural History, in Archives of Natural History 2021. (https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2021.0703)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Introduction  1 Crocologia and Its Author  2 Saffron  3 Saffron in Orthodox European Medicine after Crocologia  4 Conclusion Notes on Our Translation Methods Translated Text Frontispiece, Title Page, Dedications, and Cabalistichon I Etymology and Description of the Saffron Crocus. (Where Do Names Come From? Origin of the Name Crocus. What Is Saffron?) II Attributes, and Species, of Saffron. (This Chapter Describes Saffron, Autumnal & Vernal Wild Crocus Species, plus also Safflower) III Native Place, and Time When Saffron Emerges and Flowers IV Cultivation of Saffron. (Preferred Soil, How Planted and When, Means of Destroying Mice & Moles, Mouse-Traps, Recipe for “Multiplicative Solution”) V Selection of Saffron. (Methods of Adulteration & How to Spot Them, Places That the Best Saffron Comes From) VI Properties of Saffron. (Virtues of Saffron, Effects of Overdosing, Death of Pack-Horses Carrying Lots of Saffron) VII Uses of Preparations of Saffron. (Exhaustive Descriptions of Recipes: Two Culinary Recipes; The Rest Are for Specific Medicinal Preparations of Saffron Ranging from Spirit of Saffron to Elaeosaccharum of Saffron. Notes with the Recipes of Which Diseases the Different Preparations Can Be Used For. Interesting Uses for Whole Saffron-Flowers and for Corms) IIX Diseases of the Brain. (Sections Describing Symptoms & Causes, Associated Folklore, plus Suitable Recipes [Including Saffron] for Treating: Cephalgia or Headache, Paralysis, Vertigo, Epilepsy, Lethargy, Amnesia, Incubus, Catarrh, Agrypnia or Wakefulness, Phrenitis, Mania) IX Diseases of the Eyes. (Same Format as Above: Ophthalmia, Cataract or Opacity of the Cornea, Phlyctens, Ungula, Aegilops, Procidentia of the Eye, Swelling of the Eyelids) X Diseases of the Ears. (Same Format: Deafness, Tinnitus, Earache, Parotitis, Ear Discharges, Ulcer of the Ear) XII [No Chapter XI in Original] Diseases of the Teeth and the Tongue. (Same Format: Odontalgia, Prunella, Paralysis of the Tongue) XIII Diseases of the Chest. (Same Format: Angina, Asthma, Coughs, Phthisis, Pleurisy, Pneumonia, Empyema) XIV Diseases of the Heart. (Same Format: Syncope, Heart Palpitations) XV Diseases of the Stomach. (Same Format: Heartburn, Anorexia or Inappetence, Hiccups, Nausea) XVI Diseases of the Intestines. (Same Format: Hernia, Worms, Blind Haemorrhoids, Bleeding Haemorrhoids, Dysentery, Tenesmus, Diarrhoea, Colic) XVII Diseases of the Liver. (Same Format: Inflammation of the Liver, Hepatitis, Dropsy, Jaundice, Obstruction of the Liver, Distemper of the Liver) XVIII Diseases of the Spleen. (Same Format: Obstruction of the Spleen, Hypochondria, Scurvy) XIX Diseases of the Kidney and Bladder. (Same Format: The Stone, Urinary Retention, Impotence in Sexual Intercourse) XX Diseases of Women. (Same Format: Sterility, Chlorosis, Menstrual Retention, Uterine Haemorrhoids, Hysteric Passion, Distokia or Difficult Birth, Pain after Childbirth, Mola, Retained Secundines, Retained Lochia) XXI Fevers. (Same Format: Fevers, Plague) XXII Diseases of the External Parts. (Same Format: Erysipelas, Arthritis, Tumour, Scrofula, Breast Inflammation, Burns, Gangrene, Ecchymosis, Wounds, Ulcers, Synovia) XXIII The Mechanical Uses of Saffron. (Hair Dyes, Inks, Coloured Sugar) Questions Concerning Saffron (I. Is Saffron a Remedy against Monkshood? II. Does Saffron Prevent Intoxication or, Rather, Cause It? III. Does Saffron Induce Sleep or Wakefulness? IV. Does Saffron Tinge a Foetus in the Womb?) Illustration of Different Kinds of Crocuses, and Explicative Table Appendix 1: Hertodt’s References Appendix 2: Animadversion on Hertodt’s Crocologia by Wenzel Maximilian Ardensbach (1671) Appendix 3: Glossary Crocologia, Our References Index

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Book SynopsisThe First World War and Health: Rethinking Resilience aims to broaden the scope of resilience by looking at it from military, medical, personal and societal perspectives. The authors ask how war influenced the health – both physically and psychologically – of those fighting and attending the wounded, as well as the general health of the community of which they were part.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In A History of Population Health Johan P. Mackenbach offers a broad-sweeping study of the spectacular changes in people’s health in Europe since the early 18th century. Most of the 40 specific diseases covered in this book show a fascinating pattern of ‘rise-and-fall’, with large differences in timing between countries. Using a unique collection of historical data and bringing together insights from demography, economics, sociology, political science, medicine, epidemiology and general history, it shows that these changes and variations did not occur spontaneously, but were mostly man-made. Throughout European history, changes in health and longevity were therefore closely related to economic, social, and political conditions, with public health and medical care both making important contributions to population health improvement. Readers who would like to have a closer look at the quantitative data used in the trend graphs included in the book can find these it here.Trade Review"[...] strengths of this excellent book include its meticulous and extensive documentation, transparent discussion of what data is and is not available, analysis of prevailing theoretical explanations, use of supplementary tables, and Mackenbach's clear and compelling writing. [...] Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. General readers." - M. D. Lagerwey, Western Michigan University, in: Choice, February 2021 Vol. 58 No. 6 "Mackenbach’s longue durée, Braudel-inspired, and erudite book wades into scholarly territory that will be familiar to readers of Journal of British Studies. […] Mackenbach’s book will provide an important starting point for future research on the role of politics and public health in curbing COVID-19." - Jacob Steere-Williams, College of Charleston, South Carolina, in: Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60 (3), 2021, 746-748 pp.Table of ContentsPreface List of illustrations Chapter 1. Introduction  Utopia come true?    Rising life expectancy    The rise and fall of disease  The epidemiologic transition theory    The McKeown debate and the Preston-curve    The role of human agency   &;How to read this book    Concepts, sources, data and methods PART I. LONG-TERM TRENDS: A BIRD’S EYE VIEW Chapter 2. Long-term trends in population health  Changes in over-all population health    Declining mortality    Young and old, men and women    Regional and social inequalities    Rising height    More years in good health, more years in bad health?  Changes in disease patterns    Shifting causes of death    Shifts in the burden of disease    Diseases rise, diseases fall  Epidemiologic transition 2.0    A theory in need of repair    How: characterizing change    When: staging change    Where: locating change Chapter 3. Understanding trends in population health   Theories of population health    An ‘ecological-evolutionary theory’ of the origins of disease    Explaining long-term change  Economic, political and sociocultural conditions    Economic history: improvements in living standards    Political history: the rise of the modern state    Sociocultural history: the lights go on  Public health and medical care    A short history of public health    The impact of public health    A short history of medical care    The Role of Medicine PART II. ZOOMING IN: THE RISE AND FALL OF DISEASES Chapter 4. Health problems of pre-industrial societies  Violence and hunger    War    Homicide    Famine  Great epidemics    Plague    Smallpox    Typhus    Malaria Chapter 5. Health problems of industrializing societies  Communicable diseases    Cholera, dysentery, typhoid    Tuberculosis    Syphilis    Scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria    Pneumonia, influenza  Maternal, infant and perinatal mortality    Maternal mortality    Infant mortality    Still-births   Other health problems of industrializing societies    Pellagra, rickets, goitre    Peptic ulcer, appendicitis    Lung diseases caused by occupational and environmental exposures Chapter 6. Health problems of affluent societies   Chronic diseases    Ischaemic heart disease    Cerebrovascular disease    Diabetes mellitus    Stomach, colorectal, breast, prostate cancer    Lung cancer    Liver cirrhosis    Dementia    Depression   Injuries    Road traffic injuries    Suicide   A new plague    AIDS PART III: SYNTHESIS AND OUTLOOK Chapter 7. Why?   Why did European population health improve?    The rise and fall of disease    The role of human agency    The role of public health and medical care    The Rise of the West: was there a ‘prime mover’?   Why did some countries rush ahead or lag behind?    Northern lights: the Swedish advantage    Dutch comfort: we were the champions    Southern miracles: from rear-guard to forefront    Balkan troubles: the weight of the past    Russian roulette: the value of life Chapter 8. Outlook   Feathers of Icarus    Geopolitical instability    Increasing inequality    Global environmental change   The way ahead    The public health paradigm    An expanding circle of concern    Re-thinking Utopia   By way of conclusion    Through the telescope of history    The European experience    The role of politics    The future Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Medicine in Ancient Assur Troels Pank Arbøll offers a microhistorical study of a single exorcist named Kiṣir-Aššur who practiced medical and magical healing in the ancient city of Assur (modern northern Iraq) in the 7th century BCE. The book provides the first detailed analysis of a healer’s education and practice in ancient Mesopotamia based on at least 73 texts assigned to specific stages of his career. By drawing on a microhistorical framework, the study aims at significantly improving our understanding of the functional aspects of texts in their specialist environment. Furthermore, the work situates Kiṣir-Aššur as one of the earliest healers in world history for whom we have such details pertaining to his career originating from his own time.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations and Symbols Symbols and Further Abbreviations Introduction  1.1 Colophons  1.2 Mesopotamian Medicine  1.3 Authorship  1.4 Proof and Possibility  1.5 Scope and Structure Framework and Background  2.1 Microhistory  2.2 Framework  2.3 Background for Studying Kiṣir-Aššur  2.4 Quantifying and Contextualizing Kiṣir-Aššur’s Texts Kiṣir-Aššur’s Magico-Medical Education as šamallû ṣeḫru  3.1 Complex Diagnoses in Kiṣir-Aššur’s šamallû ṣeḫru Texts  3.2 Principles Understood Through Examples  3.3 The Head: BAM 9  3.4 The “Strings” and “Inner” Body  3.5 Snakes, Scorpions and Horses: A Discussion of RA 15 pl. 76  3.6 Gaining an Understanding of Anatomy and Physiology  3.7 Preparation for Other Duties as šamallû ṣeḫru  3.8 Summary Training in Anatomy and Physiology as šamallû ṣeḫru  4.1 The Role of Venom in Kiṣir-Aššur’s Anatomical Understanding  4.2 Veterinarian Knowledge in Kiṣir-Aššur’s Education  4.3 Excursus: Animal Variants of Human Illnesses  4.4 Animal and Human Physiology: The Reverse of RA 15 pl. 76  4.5 Summary Further Apprenticeship: šamallû to mašmaššu ṣeḫru  5.2 The šamallû mašmaššu ṣeḫru-phase  5.3 The mašmaššu ṣeḫru-phase  5.4 Excursus: The ša Nabû tuklassu-phrase  5.5 Summary Kiṣir-Aššur’s mašmaššu-phase  6.1 Texts with Colophons Including the Title mašmaššu  6.2 Making House Calls: Discussion of KAR 230  6.3 Ritually Protecting the Houses of Clients: Discussion of KAR 298  6.4 Namburbi-rituals and House Calls: KAL 4 no. 7 and LKA 115  6.5 Other Technical Literature: CT 37 pl. 24f.  6.6 Summary Additional Texts that May Belong to the mašmaššu-phase  7.1 Omission and Inclusion of Titles  7.2 Tablets Without Kiṣir-Aššur’s Professional Title  7.3 Tablets with Broken Colophons  7.4 The mašmaššu-phase and Purpose Statements  7.5 A Discussion of the Dated Tablet KAR 267  7.6 Other Technical Literature: BAM 307 and ACh Supp. 2 24  7.7 Summary Kiṣir-Aššur’s mašmaš bīt Aššur-phase  8.1 The Title mašmaš bīt Aššur  8.2 Medical Texts from Kiṣir-Aššur’s mašmaš bīt Aššur-phase  8.3 Tested Prescriptions Among the Medical Texts  8.4 Panaceas Among the Medical Texts  8.5 Ritual Texts from Kiṣir-Aššur’s mašmaš bīt Aššur-phase  8.6 Texts Connected to the Aššur Temple  8.7 Summary Situating Kiṣir-Aššur’s Knowledge Production  9.1 Kiṣir-Aššur’s Overall Medical Focus  9.2 Numbered Nisḫu-extracts  9.3 Catch-lines and Duplicate Passages in Kiṣir-Aššur’s Texts in Relation to the Therapeutic Series Ugu  9.4 The Exorcist’s Manual (EM)  9.5 Kiṣir-Aššur and the Scholarly Traditions in Assur  9.6 Summary Synthesis and Conclusion Catalogue of Texts Edition of RA 15 pl. 76  Transliteration  General Observations  Commentary Bibliography 346 Index

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Book SynopsisBody and Cosmos is a collection of articles published on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Emeritus Kenneth G. Zysk. The articles revolve thematically around the early Indian medical and astral sciences, which have been at the center of Professor Zysk’s long and esteemed career within the discipline of Indology. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the medical sciences, the second part to the astral sciences, and the third part to cross-cultural interactions between India and the West, which runs like an undercurrent throughout the work of Professor Zysk. The articles are written by internationally renowned Indological scholars and will be of value to students and researchers alike.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Part 1 Introduction 1 Kenneth G. Zysk and the University of Copenhagen  Erik Reenberg Sand 2 Kenneth G. Zysk as the Narains Remember Him  Kamal Sheel Part 2 History of Medicine 3 Agni and Soma Revisited: A Primordial Āyurvedic Concept?  Vitus Angermeier 4 Humoral Constitutions in the Carakasaṃhitā  Philipp Maas 5 Diachronic Migration of Ancient Indian Medical Literature: Divisions and Paratextual Elements in the Carakasaṃhitā  Cristina Pecchia 6 A New Translation of Carakasaṃhitā, Vimānasthāna, Chapter 1, Based on the Vienna Critical Edition  Dominik Wujastyk 7 On the Textual History of the Suśrutasaṃhitā, (2): An Anonymous Commentary and Its Identified Citations  Andrey Klebanov 8 On Attaining Special Powers through Rasāyana Therapies in Sanskrit Medical Literature  Dagmar Wujastyk 9 Karman, Prāyaścitta, and Disease: A Reading of the Karmavipāka Digression in Mādhavācārya’s Parāśaramādhavīya  Mikael Aktor 10 Plagues and Brahmins: Did a Combination of Epidemics and Ideology Empty India’s Cities?  Johannes Bronkhorst 11 Allegory and History, Life and Embodiment  Anthony Cerulli Part 3 Astral Sciences 12 The Ritualization of Omens in Late Vedic Ritual: A Consideration of Early Evidence  Marko Geslani 13 The Rāmāyaṇa and the Yugas  Luis González-Reimann 14 The Size of the Universe in Indian Astronomy  Michio Yano 15 Trigonometry through Geometry: Bhāskarācārya’s Generation of Sines  Krishnamurthi Ramasubramanian and Clemency Montelle 16 Mathematics and Presentation of Eclipse Diagrams in Sanskrit Astronomy  Kim Plofker 17 Numerical Systems Followed in Grantha Manuscripts  Saraju Rath Part 4 Interactions across Culture and Time 18 Inventing the Pothi: The Adoption and Spread of a New Manuscript Format in Indian Buddhism  Stefan Baums 19 Indian Physicians in Greco-Roman Literature?  Klaus Karttunen 20 Greco-Indian Astrological Theories on Conception and Childbirth: Chapters Three and Four of Mīnarāja’s Vṛddhayavanajātaka  Bill M. Mak 21 Modern Sāṃkhya: Plurality of Sāṃkhya Traditions in Modern India  Knut A. Jacobsen The Works of Kenneth G. Zysk Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a set of in-depth case studies about the role of questions and answers (Q&A) in ancient Greek medical writing from its Hippocratic beginnings up to, and including, Late Antiquity. The use of Q&A formulas is widely attested in ancient Greek medical texts, casting an intriguing light on its relevance for the medical art at large, and for ancient medical practice, education, and research in specific (diagnostics, didactics, dialectics). The book aims to break new grounds by exploring, for the first time, the wide complexity of this phenomenon while introducing a coherent approach. In so doing, it not only covers highly specialized medical treatises but also non-canonical authors and texts, including anonymous papyrus fragments and collections of problems.Trade Review"The volume provides excellent coverage of the medical papyri and problemata-style texts, with essays on audience, genre, logic, structure and text-critical and papyrological issues cohering closely together. (...) It is generally successful in its aim to use Q&A as a springboard to provide unexpected ‘windows’ onto wider cultural, philosophical, and textual features of ancient medicine. It will certainly be of interest and use not only to those working on ancient medicine more generally but also to scholars interested in wide-angled approaches to genre. It is a well-produced book with a thorough index." Claire Hall in BMCR 2021.06.41Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Ancient Greek Medicine in Questions and Answers: A Short Introduction  Michiel Meeusen 1 Questioning the Obvious: The Use of Questions and Answers in Assessing Consciousness in the Hippocratic Corpus  Andrés Pelavski 2 Peripatetic and Hippocratic Seeds in Pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata 4: Raising Questions about Aristotle’s Rejection of the Pangenesis Theory of Generation  Robert Mayhew 3 Author(s) and Reader(s) in the Supplementary Problems (Supplementa Problematorum)  Katerina Oikonomopoulou 4 Ps.-Alexander of Aphrodisias on Unsayable Properties in Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems  Michiel Meeusen 5 Erotetic Logic, Uncertainty and Therapy: Galen and Alexander on Logic and Medicine  Luca Gili 6 La réponse du médecin : les rapports d’ inspection médicale écrits en grec sur papyrus (Ier-IVe siècles)  Antonio Ricciardetto 7 Definitions and Technical Terminology in the Erôtapokriseis on Papyrus  Isabella Bonati 8 Digitizing Medical Papyri in Question-and-Answer Format  Nicola Reggiani 9 Questions on the Unseen: Alexander of Tralles’ Patient Interaction  Laura Mareri Index Rerum Nominumque Index Locorum

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Book SynopsisThis volume aims at exploring the ancient roots of ‘holistic’ approaches in the specific field of medicine and the life sciences, without, however, overlooking the larger theoretical implications of these discussions. Therefore, the project plans to broaden the perspective to include larger cultural discussions and, in a comparative spirit, reach out to some examples from non Graeco-Roman medical cultures. As such, it constitutes a fundamental contribution to history of medicine, philosophy of medicine, cultural studies, and ancient studies more broadly. The wide-ranging selection of chapters offers a comprehensive view of an exciting new field: the interrogation of ancient sources in the light of modern concepts in philosophy of medicine, as justification of the claim for their enduring relevance as object of study and, at the same time, as means to a more adequate contextualisation of modern debates within a long historical process. Contributors are: Hynek Bartoš, Sean Coughlin, Elizabeth Craik, Brooke Holmes, Helen King, Giouli Korobili, David Leith, Vivian Nutton, Julius Rocca, William Michael Short, P. N. Singer, Konstantinos Stefou, Chiara Thumiger, Laurence Totelin, Claire Trenery, John Wee, Francis Zimmermann.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Chiara Thumiger Part 1: Holism: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives 1 Holism, Parts, Wholes  Chiara Thumiger 2 Holism, Sympathy, and the Living Being in Ancient Greek Medicine and Philosophy  Brooke Holmes 3 ‘Holism’ in Cognitive Approaches to the Ancient Emotions  William Michael Short Part 2: Is Graeco-Roman Medicine Holistic? 4 Hippocratic Holisms  Hynek Bartoš 5 Holism and the Methodists  David Leith 6 Is Graeco-Roman Medicine Holistic? Galen and Ancient Medical-Philosophical Debates  P. N. Singer 7 Holism of Body and Mind in Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy  Elizabeth Craik 8 Plato’s Charmides on Philosophy as Holistic Medical Practice  Giouli Korobili and Konstantinos Stefou 9 A Woman in Flux: Fluidity in Hippocratic Gynaecology  Laurence M. V. Totelin 10 Cohesive Causes in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Medicine  Sean Coughlin 11 Pneuma as a Holistic Concept in Galen  Julius Rocca Part 3: Medical Holism beyond the Graeco-Roman World 12 Humoralism in Āyurvedic Medicine  Francis Zimmermann 13 A Systemic Etiology of Sicknesses from Ancient Iraq: Organ Systems and the Functional Holism of the Babylonian Body  John Z. Wee 14 Epidemic Disease in a Humoral Environment: From Airs, Waters and Places to the Renaissance  Vivian Nutton 15 Mind-Body Interaction: The Influence of Ancient Ideas in Twelfth-Century England  Claire Trenery 16 ‘Treating the Patient, Not Just the Disease’: Reading Ancient Medicine in Modern Holistic Medicine  Helen King Index Rerum Index Locorum Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisThe Huihui Yaofang was an encyclopedia of Near Eastern medicine compiled under the Mongol Yuan Dynasty for the benefit of themselves and the then Chinese medical establishments. Some 15% of the work survives, from a Ming Dynasty edition, and is here translated for the first time into English. We extensively introduce the translation with introductions situating it within the history of western and Chinese medicine, and provide critical apparatus for understanding. We provide accounts of the medicines and foods, with comparisons to other works of the time and to modern folk uses of these medicines in the Middle East. We show that the work is solidly western Asian, specifically derived from Persian-speaking Central Asia, and is adapted to Chinese use in several ways but without losing its western character.

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Book SynopsisWith A Glimpse into Medical Practice among Jews around 1500: Latin-German Pharmaceutical Glossaries in Hebrew Characters extant in Ms Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Cod. Or. 4732/1 (SCAL 15), fols. 1a–17b, Gerrit Bos and Klaus-Dietrich Fischer present an edition of two unique medieval lists of medico-botanical terms in German and Latin, written in Hebrew characters.Table of ContentsTransliteration System Introduction Edition Glossary 1 (fols. 1a–11b) Edition Glossary 2 (fols. 11b–17b) Reconstruction of Latin and German Terms in Both Glossaries  Glossary 1  Glossary 2 Index of Terms in Hebrew Characters Index of Latin Terms Index of German Terms Facsimiles

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Book SynopsisHow did medical students become Galenic physicians in the early modern era? Making Physicians guides the reader through the ancient sources, textbooks, lecture halls, gardens, dissecting rooms, and patient bedsides in the early decades of an important medical school. Standard pedagogy combined book learning and hands-on experience. Professors and students embraced Galen’s models for integrating reason and experience, and cultivated humanist scholarship and argumentation, which shaped their study of chymistry, medical botany, and clinical practice at patients' bedsides, in private homes and in the city hospital. Following Galen’s emphasis on finding and treating the sick parts, professors correlated symptoms and the evidence from post-mortems to produce new pathological knowledge.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Bodies of Knowledge in the Late Renaissance  1 Following Galen to Find the Seats and Causes of Disease  2 Disease Displayed in Private, Public, and Clinical Anatomies  3 Reconstructing Intellectual Microcosms  4 Pedagogy and Practices  5 Making Medicines from Books, Gardens, and Chymistry  6 Experience, Empiricism, and Experiment  7 Plan of Chapters 1 Contexts for the Medical Curriculum  1 Medicine for a Young Republic in the 1575 Founding  2 University, City, State  3 The Harvest of Trials from Earlier Sixteenth-Century Academic Medicine  4 Experience and Experiment in Early Leiden Mixed Mathematics and Engineering  5 The Humanist, Practical Education of Medical Professors  6 Early Medical Curricula  7 Conclusions 2 Ideals of Learning and Reading  1 Ideals of Curing Bodies by Reason and Experience  2 The Virtues of Disputation for Learning and Exams  3 Study Guides for Sharpening the Ingenium (Wit) of the Brain  4 Student Life and the Vices of Embodied Learners  5 Conclusions 3 Lecturing about Philosophical Bodies  1 Core Philosophy and Theory  2 Basic Principles vs. Hope for Certainty  3 Galen on Faculties, Matter, and Souls  4 Galen among Ancient Sources on “Powers” or Faculties  5 Early Modern Medical Discussions of Faculties  6 Conclusions 4 Learning to Make Medicines: Reading, Viewing, Tasting, and Testing  1 Fire and Transmutation  2 Chymical Teaching in the Lecture Hall  3 Cultivating Knowledge and Medicinal Simples in the Garden  4 Naturalists Knowing Plants by Experience and Experiment  5 God’s Medicines and Models of Making Trials  6 Galen’s Models for Knowing Drugs and Making Trials  7 Medieval and Early Modern Debates over Sensing and Knowing Medicinal Faculties  8 Making and Knowing Medicines with Johannes Heurnius’ New Method  9 Conclusions 5 Knowing and Treating the Diseased Body  1 The Malfunctioning Seats of Diseases  2 Seats of Diseases after Galen  3 Knowing Material and Other Causes of Diseases  4 Teaching Students to Treat the Faulty Part  5 Localizing Diseases in Students’ Disputations  6 Conclusions 6 Disease Displayed in Public and Private Anatomies  1 Anatomy Serving the Practice of Physicians and Surgeons  2 Piety and Decorum  3 Disease Displayed in Public and Private Anatomies  4 Generation and Murder  5 Cutting to the Causes of Disease and Death  6 Conclusions 7 Innovation and Clinical Anatomies  1 The Pulse Controversy and Anatomical Innovation  2 Early Clinical Training and Anatomies  3 Founding Regular Bedside Learning at the Hospital  4 Causes, Histories, and Therapy Displayed in Diseased Bodies  5 Diseases and Remedies from Across the Dutch Empire  6 Tracking Diseases by Clinical Signs and Post-Mortem Evidence  7 Making New Knowledge of Phthisis (Consumption)  8 Later Leiden Pedagogy and a New Theory of Phthisis  9 Conclusions Conclusion: A Microcosm of Medical Learning and Practices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhen smallpox inoculation entered western medical practice in 1721 it aroused considerable controversy. A broad-based cohort of enlightened Germans such as publishers, poets, pastors and elite women attempted to dispel the doubts and encourage the innovative procedure. Yet many parents remained fearful, and the contagiousness of inoculation also necessitated a new approach. National pride in the past defeat of bubonic plague aroused optimism that smallpox could be banished using a similar strategy. The arrival in 1800 of Jenner’s vaccine ended the debates by offering yet another promising new approach. Battling Smallpox before Vaccination explores the social and medical impacts of inoculation. It offers belated recognition for the valiant attempts of the many protagonists battling against the so-called ‘murdering angel’ before Edward Jenner’s discovery of vaccination. It provides a comprehensive description and penetrating analysis of the understanding and perception of smallpox, the propagation of pro-inoculation information, varied reactions to inoculation, and debates over the idealistic goal of eradicating smallpox.Table of ContentsAuthor’s Note and Acknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction 1 Realities, Myths, and Perceptions  1 Reality and Mythology of Smallpox  2 Inoculation Offers a New Approach  3 Perceptions of a Benevolent ‘Murdering Angel’ 2 The Ruling Class and the Nobility  1 Princes, and ‘Travelling Inoculators’  2 High-Ranking Mothers  3 Successive Prussian Kings’ Strategies  4 The Rural Nobility 3 Academics and Medical Men  1 University Medical Schools  2 Physiki Lead the Way  3 Social-Class Considerations – Doctors Versus Surgeons 4 The Discourse in the Print Media  1 The Published Word Spreads News of the Innovation  2 Intellectuals, Doctors, and the Public Have Their Say  3 Regional Influences Come into Play 5 A Literary Focus on Women  1 Changing Sentiments in Depictions of Disfigurement  2 Poets and Writers Focus on Young Women  3 Real and Fictional Women as Inoculation Promoters  4 Women as Authors, and as Targets of Advice 6 Pastors and Peasants  1 The Problem of Smallpox in Rural Areas  2 Challenges for Country Pastors  3 Inoculation Makes Inroads 7 To Inoculate, or Aim to Eradicate Smallpox  1 Inoculation versus Containment Strategies  2 Two Campaigns Aiming to Eradicate Smallpox  3 Disputes over Prospects for Eradication Conclusion Appendix 1: German University Dissertations about Inoculation: 1720–1798 Appendix 2: Original German Publications about Inoculation: 1714–1800 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of articles presents cutting-edge scholarship in Hippocratic studies in English from an international range of experts. It pays special attention to the commentary tradition, notably in Syriac and Arabic, and its relevance to the constitution and interpretation of works in the Hippocratic Corpus. It presents new evidence from hitherto unpublished sources, including Greek papyri and Syriac and Arabic manuscripts. It encompasses not only the classical period (and notably Galen), but also tackles evidence from the medieval and Renaissance periods. Contributors are: Elizabeth Craik, David Leith, Tommaso Raiola, Jacques Jouanna, Caroline Magdelaine, Jean-Michel Mouton, Peter N. Singer, R. J. Hankinson, Ralph M. Rosen, Daniela Manetti, Mathias Witt, Amneris Roselli, Véronique Boudon-Millot, Sabrina Grimaudo, Giulia Ecca, Kamran I. Karimullah, María Teresa Santamaría Hernández, and Jesús Ángel y Espinós.Trade Review"The published papers in this volume reflect his group’s multilingual and interlingual focus. But they do much more than this. The majority of the papers address three interconnected questions: (1) the boundary between an exegesis and an exposition; (2) how the genre of the source text influences the commentary (notably in the case of surgical texts); and (3) how commentary can serve to canonize an author, and stigmatize other views and interpretations. The result is a collection of essays that is remarkably coherent and focused. (...) Taken as a whole, this is a very satisfying volume, with a thematic unity both unusual in proceedings of this kind, and original." - Faith Wallis, in: BMCR, 2022.09.34Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  Peter E. Pormann 1 Reflections on Hippocratic Commentary  Elizabeth Craik 2 Asclepiades of Bithynia as Hippocratic Commentator  David Leith 3 Sabinus ‘the Hippocratic’: His Exegetical Method in the Commentaries on Hippocrates  Tommaso Raiola 4 Galen as Commentator of Commentaries: The Case of the HippocraticEpidemics 1 and 3  Jacques Jouanna 5 New Fragments of a Commentary on the Oath Attributed to Galen  Caroline Magdelaine and Jean-Michel Mouton 6 Beyond and behind the Commentary: Galen on Hippocrates on Elements  Peter N. Singer 7 Galen the Hippocratic: Textual Analysis and the Practice of Commentary  R.J. Hankinson 8 Galen’s Hippocratic ‘Commentary’ on The Capacities of the Soul Depend on the Mixtures of the Body  Ralph M. Rosen 9 Commenting beyond the Commentary: Galen’s Exegetical Strategies in Difficulties in Breathing  Daniela Manetti 10 Types of Cranial Injuries in the Hippocratic Wounds in the Head in Light of the Ancient Commentary Tradition  Mathias Witt 11 Galen’s Surgical Commentaries on Hippocrates  Amneris Roselli 12 Galen and Pseudo-Galen in Conversation: Epidemics 2.3.2 and Aphorisms 4.5  Véronique Boudon-Millot 13 Ancient Medicine in the Galenic Corpus: The Story of a Concealment  Sabrina Grimaudo 14 A New Anonymous Prologue to the Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms in the Harleianus 6295  Giulia Ecca 15 On the Authorship of the Syriac Prognostic  Kamran I. Karimullah 16 The Latin Commentary by Pedro Jaime Esteve on the Second Book of the Hippocratic Epidemics (Valencia, 1551)  María Teresa Santamaría Hernández 17 The First Complete Renaissance Commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics  Jesús Ángel y Espinós Bibliography Index Locorum General Index

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Book SynopsisThis edition contains the collected English translations of the series The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides (17 vols., 2002–2021) that were published by Gerrit Bos in parallel critical editions along with the original Arabic texts. The collection offers three main medical treatises by Maimonides (1138–1204) (Medical Aphorisms; Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms; On Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs and six minor ones (On Coitus; On the Regimen of Health; On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them; On Hemorrhoids; On Asthma; On Rules Regarding the Practical Part of the Medical Art, presented for the first time in one harmonized volume, supplemented by indexes of diseases, medicinal ingredients, and quoted physicians.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 On Asthma  Chapter One: On the best regimen in general  Chapter Two: On the provision of rules concerning the foods to be eaten or avoided in relation to this disease  Chapter Three: On the different kinds of food that should be avoided or consumed, selected from those foods that are readily available and common among us  Chapter Four: On the composition of different dishes which are beneficial in this disease  Chapter Five: On the quantity of food  Chapter Six: On the times of day for the consumption of food  Chapter Seven: On beverages  Chapter Eight: On the proper regimen in connection with the air and movements of the soul  Chapter Nine: On the proper regimen for retention and evacuation  Chapter Ten: On the proper regimen regarding sleep and waking, bathing, massage, and sexual intercourse  Chapter Eleven: On the provision of rules for the treatment of this disease  Chapter Twelve: On the composition of drugs necessary for every different kind of this disease, according to the scope of this treatise  Chapter Thirteen: On the provision of rules, few in number but of great help for people in general, concerning the regimen of health and the healing of diseases; in hortatory form 2 On Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs  The First Chapter of the First Part: Concerning the regimen of someone bitten in general  The Second Chapter of the First Part: Concerning the simple and compound topical remedies that are put on the site of the bite  The Third Chapter of the First Part: Concerning the simple remedies that are beneficial for the bite of all kinds of vermin  The Fourth Chapter of the First Part: On the compound remedies beneficial against bites and stings  The Fifth Chapter of the First Part: Concerning the specific treatment of someone bitten by a certain animal  The Sixth Chapter of the First Part: Concerning the foods to be given to bite victims in general and in particular, and certain remedies with specific properties which are fitting for this purpose  The First Chapter of the Second Part: On the prophylaxis against deadly poisons  The Second Chapter of the Second Part: Concerning the regimen in general of someone who took a deadly poison or who suspects that he took it  The Third Chapter of the Second Part: Concerning the simple and compound remedies that are generally beneficial for someone who took poison  The Fourth Chapter of the Second Part: On the regimen for someone who knows which poison he took 3 On Hemorrhoids  Chapter One: A general discussion of the improvement of the digestions  Chapter Two: On the food from which one should refrain because of this illness  Chapter Three: On the foods that one should aim for because of this illness  Chapter Four: On the simple and compound drugs that one should regularly take  Chapter Five: On topical remedies which should be taken repeatedly as well  Chapter Six: On that which one should rely upon when this disease flares up  Chapter Seven: On the fumigations that should be prescribed for this illness 4 On Rules Regarding the Practical Part of the Medical Art 5 Medical Aphorisms  The First Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning the subject of the medical art, by which I mean the form of the organs of the human body and their functions and faculties  The Second Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning the humors  The Third Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning the principles of the art and general rules  The Fourth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning the pulse and the prognostic signs to be derived from it  The Fifth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning the prognostic signs to be derived from the urine  The Sixth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning the other prognostic signs  The Seventh Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning the causes of diseases which are often not known or which are discussed in a confused way  The Eighth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning the correct regimen for the healing of diseases in general  The Ninth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning specific diseases  The Tenth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning fevers  The Eleventh Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning the periods and crisis of a disease  The Twelfth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning evacuation by means of bloodletting  The Thirteenth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning evacuations by means of purgatives and enemas  The Fourteenth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning vomiting  The Fifteenth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning surgery  The Sixteenth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning women  The Seventeenth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning the regimen of health in general  The Eighteenth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning physical exercise  The Nineteenth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning bathing  The Twentieth Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning foods, beverages, and their consumption  The Twenty-First Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning drugs  The Twenty-Second Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning the specific properties of remedies  The Twenty-Third Treatise: Containing aphorisms concerning the differences between well-known diseases and the elucidation of technical terms that are well known to the physicians but whose exact meanings are sometimes unknown to them  The Twenty-Fourth Treatise: Containing curiosities, which feature and are related in the medical books, and unusual, rare occurrences  The Twenty-fifth Treatise: Containing some doubts that befell me concerning Galen’s words 6 On Coitus 7 On the Regimen of Health  Chapter One: On the regimen of health in general, with respect to all people, in a few words  Chapter Two: On the regimen of sick people in general, when no physician can be found, or when the available physician is such that one cannot rely upon his knowledge  Chapter Three: On the regimen of my Master in particular, according to the symptoms he complains about  Chapter Four: Consisting of sections in the form of hortatory rules that are useful in general and in particular for healthy and sick people in all places and all times 8 On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them (Formerly Known as On the Causes of Symptoms) 9 Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms  The First Part of the Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms  The Second Part of the Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms  The Third Part of the Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms  The Fourth Part of the Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms  The Fifth Part of the Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms  The Sixth Part of the Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms  The Seventh Part of the Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms Glossary of Technical Terms Glossary of Weights and Measures Sigla Index of Quoted Physicians, Philosophers, and Their Works Index of Diseases and Afflictions Index of Medicinal Products, Dishes, and Their Ingredients and Components (Including Poisons)

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Book SynopsisWhere did we do science in the Enlightenment and why? This volume brings together leading historians of Early Modern science to explore the places, spaces, and exchanges of Enlightenment knowledge production. Adding to our understanding of the “geographies of knowledge”, it examines the relationship between “space” and “place”, institutions, “objects”, and “ideas”, showing the ways in which the location of science really matters. Contributors are Robert Iliffe, Victor Boantza, Margaret Carlyle, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Trevor H. Levere, Alice Marples, Gordon McOuat, Larry Stewart, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart 2 Escape from Capnopolis: William Stukeley’s ‘True Academick Life’  Rob Iliffe 3 Something is in the Air: Experimental Spaces, Analogical Reasoning, and the Problem of Putrefaction in Enlightenment Europe  Margaret Carlyle and Victor D. Boantza 4 Instrument Makers, Shops, and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century London  Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin 5 ‘My Collection in All Its Branches’: The Imagined Space of Early Modern Scientific Correspondence  Alice Marples 6 The Dissemination of Chemical Theory and Chemical Instruments through Cabinets, Laboratories, Lecture Theatres and Museums during the Napoleonic Wars  Trevor H. Levere 7 The Public Space of Knowledge and the Public Sphere of Science  Marie Thébaud-Sorger 8 The Space Between: James Dinwiddie and the Transit of Science, 1760–1815  Larry Stewart 9 “Both by Sea and Land”: William Whiston, Longitude, and the Measurement of Space  Simon Werret Index

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Book SynopsisThe production of forgeries under the name of the Swiss physician Paracelsus (1493/94-1541) was an integral part of the diffusion of the Paracelsian movement in early modern Europe. Many of these texts were widely read and extremely influential. The inability of most readers of the time to distinguish the genuine from the fake amid the flood of publications contributed much to the emergence of Paracelsus’ legendary image as the patron of alchemy and occult philosophy. Innovative studies on largely overlooked aspects of Paracelsianism along with an extensive catalogue of Paracelsian forgeries make this volume an essential resource for future studies. Contributors are Tobias Bulang, Dane T. Daniel, Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr., Hiro Hirai, Didier Kahn, Julian Paulus, Lawrence M. Principe, and Martin Žemla. Originally published as Special Issue of the journal Early Science and Medicine, volume 24 (2019), no. 5-6 (published February 2020), with a revised Introduction and a new Appendix by Julian Paulus, entitled “A Catalogue Raisonné of Pseudo-Paracelsian Writings: Texts Attributed to Paracelsus and Paracelsian Writings of Doubtful Authenticity,” has been added.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction  Didier Kahn and Hiro Hirai The Authenticity of Paracelsus’ Astronomia Magna and Brief an die Wittenberger Theologen: Towards a Diagnostic Rubric Clarifying Authentic and Spurious Elements in Paracelsus’ Oeuvre on the Basis of Theological Motifs  Dane T. Daniel The Philosophia ad Athenienses in the Light of Genuine Paracelsian Cosmology  Didier Kahn Genealogy of Knowledge and Delegitimization of Universities: The Pseudo-Paracelsian Aurora Philosophorum  Tobias Bulang Into the Forger’s Library: The Genesis of De natura rerum in Publication History  Hiro Hirai Paracelsus, the Plague, and De Pestilitate  Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr. The Astronomia Olympi novi and the Theologia Cabalistica: Two Pseudo-Paracelsian Works of the Philosophia Mystica (1618)  Martin Žemla The Development of the Basil Valentine Corpus and Biography: Pseudepigraphic Corpora and Paracelsian Ideas  Lawrence M. Principe Appendix: A Catalogue raisonné of Pseudo-Paracelsian Writings: Texts Attributed to Paracelsus and Paracelsian Writings of Doubtful Authenticity  Julian Paulus Index Nominum Indices to the Appendix

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Book SynopsisʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī's Indian Books, completed in the year 850 CE as an appendix to his medico-philosophical chef-d'œuvre "Paradise of Wisdom", belong to the most remarkable texts in Arabic scientific literature. The Indian Books offer a unique, interpretative summary of the main tenets of Ayurvedic medicine, as understood by Arabic-speaking scholars on the basis of now lost translations from Sanskrit. The present book centres around a critical edition and annotated translation of this crucial text, framed by a detailed introduction and extensive glossaries of terms. Ṭabarī's learned exposé of Ayurveda also throws a more nuanced light on the allegedly uncontested supremacy of Greek humoralism in 9th-century Arabic medicine.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is both a continuation of the five already published titles in the series (2011–21) and an addition to the Concise Dictionary of Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the Middle Ages. It continues mapping the medical terminology featured in medieval Hebrew medical works in order to facilitate study of medical terms that do not appear in the existing dictionaries as well as identifying the medical terminology used by specific authors and translators in order to identify anonymous medical material. The terminology discussed in this volume has been derived from fourteen different sources, including translations of Ibn al-Jazzār’s Zād al-musāfir by Moses ibn Tibbon (Sefer Ṣedat ha-Derakhim) and the otherwise unknown Abraham ben Isaac (Sefer Ṣedah la-Oreḥim), as well as the translation of Constantine the Africanʼs Latin version (Viaticum) prepared by Do’eg ha-Edomi (Sefer Yaʾir Netiv).Table of ContentsSigla, Sources, and Abbreviations Introduction List of Terms Bibliography Used Hebrew Sources Corrections to NM 1–5 and BCD Index of Greek Terms Index of Arabic/Persian Terms

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Book SynopsisAiming to develop a less studied literary genre, this book provides a well-rounded picture of spiritual and physical diseases and their remedies as they were ingrained in the imagination and practices of Middle Eastern Abrahamic cultures, with a special emphasis of Christian communities (Greeks/Byzantines, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Ethiopians). The volume traces traditions dealing with the onset of a disease in the body and soul, the search for remedy, the maintenance of healing, and the engagement of these processes with faith—either through their affirmation in the public sphere or remaining within the personal framework, as in monastic traditions. A recurring presence in religious literature and the history of the intellectual world, the confrontation between disease and healing may well still be current for our modern understanding of the paths to seeking and maintaining the health of one’s body and soul, without excluding the factor of faith as a core principle.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Catalin-Stefan Popa 1 The Contemplative as Spiritual Physician: Medical Theory and Terminology in the Writings of Evagrius Ponticus  Luke Dysinger 2 Illness, Sainthood, and Spiritual Healing in Early Antique Monasticism  Daniel Lemeni 3 Illness of Body and Soul in Greek-Speaking Church Fathers  Martin Meiser 4 Survivals of Phoenician and Aramaic Pharmacobotany during Late Antiquity  Daniel Asade 5 Zoroastrian Medical Rhetoric in Late Antique Iran  Mahnaz Moazami 6 Physician, Spiritual Healer, or Medicine Man? Medical Science according to Bar Bahlūl  Stefanie Rudolf 7 Spiritual Therapy of the Heart: Syriac Fathers on a Pure Heart and How to Keep It Free of Disease  Catalin-Stefan Popa 8 Disease and Healing according to the Armenian Christian Tradition  Jesse Siragan Arlen 9 Soul and Body: Diseases, Remedies and Healing in Georgian Hagiography  Gaga Shurgaia 10 Haunted Bodies: Health, Illness and Inner Life in Byzantium  Raffaele Guerra 11 Non-Codex Gəʿəz Manuscripts as Forms of Healing  Hagos Abrha Abay 12 A Sixteenth Century Hebrew Account of the Epidemic in Naples  Nadia Zeldes 13 Medical and Pharmacological Remedies with Qurʾanic Verses in Nineteenth-Century Manuscripts from Timbuktu  Ali Diakite and Paul Naylor 14 ‘Let Us Bear Illness with Dignity and Righteousness’ Physical and Spiritual Affliction in the Understanding of the Elders of Optina  Eugene Lyutko, Gleb Zapalsky and Vyacheslav Yachmenik Index of Subjects Index of Names Index of Places

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Book SynopsisThomas Robert Malthus's reputation has lately been rehabilitated in the fields of social biology, demography, environmentalism, and economics. In the midst of this current interest and with the chance to mark the occasion of the bicentenary of the first edition of the Essay on Population (1798), the contributors to this volume take this timely opportunity to examine the historical conditions in which Malthus constructed his theory, and in which the concept of a ‘Malthusian' and ‘Neo-Malthusian' philosophy first emerged.Trade Review"…outstanding choice of contributors […] steady editorial work…" - in: The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 34, pt. 3, No. 122 (Sept. 2001) "…a far-ranging examination of some rarely explored topics." - in: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2003), pp. 193-5Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Brian DOLAN: Introduction: Malthusian Selections 1. Brian DOLAN: Malthus's Political Economy of Health: The critique of Scandinavia in the Essay on Population 2. Timothy L. ALBORN: Boys to Men: Moral Restraint at Haileybury College 3. Roy PORTER: The Malthusian Moment 4. Robert M. YOUNG: ‘Malthus on Man - In Animals No Moral Restraint' 5. Brian YOUNG: Malthus Among the Theologians 6. Christopher HAMLIN and Kathleen GALLAGHER-KAMPER: Malthus and the Doctors: Political Economy, Medicine, and the State in England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800-1840 7. Lesley A. HALL: Malthusian Mutations: The Changing Politics and Moral Meanings of Birth Control in Britain 8. Angus McLAREN: Reproduction and Revolution: Paul Robin and Neo-Malthusianism in France 9. Antonello LA VERGATA: Biology and Sociology of Fertility: Reactions to the Malthusian Threat, 1798-1933 Index

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Book SynopsisProminent themes in the discourses on Britain's post-war regeneration include national character, citizenship, fitness, education, utopia, and community. The chapters in the present volume address these themes and break new ground by examining debates well known in political and literary history through their relations to science, medicine, architecture and ideas of social and political ‘health'.Trade Review”… well-written…” - in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy: a European Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2002 “…capacious and enjoyable…” - in: Social History of Medicine, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2002Table of ContentsNotes on contributors 1. Christopher LAWRENCE and Anna-K. MAYER: Regenerating England: An Introduction 2. Michael BARTHOLOMEW: H.V. Morton's English Utopia 3. Christopher LAWRENCE: Edward Jenner's Jockey Boots and the Great Tradition in English Medicine 1918-1939 4. Anna K. MAYER: ‘A combative sense of duty': Englishness and the Scientists 5. Timothy BOON: ‘The shell of a prosperous age': History, Landscape and the Modern in Paul Rotha's The Face of Britain (1935) 6. Elizabeth DARLING: ‘Enriching and enlarging the whole sphere of human activities': The Work of the Voluntary Sector in Housing Reform in Inter-War Britain 7. Keith VERNON: A Healthy Society for Future Intellectuals: Developing Student Life at Civic Universities 8. Abigail BEACH: Potential For Participation: Health Centres and the Idea of Citizenship c. 1920-1940 9. Mathew THOMSON: Constituting Citizenship: Mental Deficiency, Mental Health and Human Rights in Inter-war Britain 10. Rhodri HAYWARD: The Biopolitics of Arthur Keith and Morley Roberts 11. Lesley A. HALL: ‘Not a domestic utensil but a woman and a citizen': Stella Browne on Women, Health and Society Index

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Book SynopsisNeurasthenia, meaning nerve weakness, was ‘invented’ in the United States as a disorder of modernity, caused by the fast pace of urban life. Soon after, from the early 1880s onwards, this modern disease crossed the Atlantic. Neurasthenia became much less ‘popular’ in Britain or the Netherlands than in Germany. This book explores neurasthenia’s many-sided history from a comparative perspective.Trade Review"The volume is an important addition to the historical literature on neurasthenia and should be welcomed as a significant contribution to scholarship." - in: Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2006) "Cultures of Neurasthenia is a welcome contribution, not only to history of medicine but also to broader social and cultural history general. …This collection is an inspiring invitation to medical and social historians to join forces and embark on more comparative work." - in: Wellcome History, Vol. 22 (2003) "…a fascinating and colourful book … and a valuable contribution to the history of psychiatry and psychiatric treatment." - in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2002) "Wer sich also über die Neurasthenie informieren will, greift mit Gewinn zu diesem Sammelband." - in: Gesnerus, Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences, Vol. 59 (2002) "…varied and thought-provoking… […] This is […] a timely and welcome volume." - in: Social History of Medicine, Vol. 15, No. 3 (2002) "…worthwhile…" – Mark Welch, in: Metapsychology Online Book Reviews (2002) "…a great collection that deserves a wide readership…" - in: Medical History, 47(2) (April 2003)Table of ContentsMarijke GIJSWIJT-HOFSTRA: Introduction: Cultures of Neurasthenia from Beard to the First World War Roy PORTER: Nervousness, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Style: From Luxury to Labour Tom LUTZ: Varieties of Medical Experience: Doctors and Patients, Psyche and Soma in America Mathew THOMSON: Neurasthenia in Britain: An Overview Chandak SENGOOPTA: ‘A Mob of Incoherent Symptoms’ ? Neurasthenia in British Medical Discourse, 1860-1920 Hilary MARLAND: ‘Uterine Mischief’: W.S. Playfair and his Neurasthenic Patients Michael NEVE :Public Views of Neurasthenia: Britain, 1880-1930 Doris KAUFMANN: Neurasthenia in Wilhelmine Germany: Culture, Sexuality, and the Demands of Nature Volker ROELCKE: Electrified Nerves, Degenerated Bodies: Medical Discourses on Neurasthenia in Germany, circa 1880-1914 Joachim RADKAU: The Neurasthenic Experience in Imperial Germany: Expeditions into Patient Records and Side-looks upon General History Heinz-Peter SCHMIEDEBACH: The Public's View of Neurasthenia in Germany: Looking for a New Rhythm of Life Joost VIJSELAAR: Neurasthenia in the Netherlands Jessica SLIJKHUIS: Neurasthenia as Pandora's Box? 'Zenuwachtigheid' and Dutch Psychiatry around 1900 Marijke GIJSWIJT-HOFSTRA: In Search of Dutch Neurasthenics from the 1880s to the early-1920s Nelleke BAKKER: A Harmless Disease: Children and Neurasthenia in the Netherlands Christopher E. FORTH: Neurasthenia and Manhood in fin-de-siecle France Sonu SHAMDASANI: Claire, Lise, Jean, Nadia, and Gisele: Preliminary Notes towards a Characterisation of Pierre Janet's Psychasthenia List of Illustrations

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