TY - BOOK ID - 3038104 TI - Health and Medicine in Early Medieval Southern Italy PY - 1997 VL - 11 SN - 9004103945 900447630X 9789004103948 9789004476301 PB - Leiden;Boston BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Medicine, Medieval KW - Diseases KW - Médecine médiévale KW - Maladies KW - History. KW - History KW - Histoire KW - History of Medicine, Medieval KW - Social Conditions KW - Attitude to Health. KW - history KW - Médecine médiévale KW - Medicine, Medieval - Italy, Southern - History. KW - Diseases - Italy, Southern - History. KW - History of Medicine, Medieval - Italy. KW - Social Conditions - history - Italy. KW - Medieval medicine KW - Human beings KW - Illness KW - Illnesses KW - Morbidity KW - Sickness KW - Sicknesses KW - Medicine KW - Epidemiology KW - Health KW - Pathology KW - Sick UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3038104 AB - Medical historians are already familiar with medieval southern Italy through research into its famed medical school at Salerno. This volume takes a broader view of healthcare, seeking to illuminate the experience of sickness, attitudes towards the ill and infirm and the provision of care up to the twelfth century. Combining information from hagiography and chronicles with less well-known charters and archaeology, it deals with the provision of food, the environment, women's health, individual and collective disease and varieties of cure. A final chapter assesses the interaction between intellectual and practical medicine, as well as re-examining the early life of the medical school at Salerno. The book's importance lies in its wide-ranging approach and detailed analysis, which will appeal to historians of medicine and medieval culture alike. ER -