Leprosy in premodern medicine : a malady of the whole body /
While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a "disease of the soul," physicians in the period understood it to be a "cancer of the whole body." In this innovative study, medical historian Luke Demaitre explores medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when j...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The sources: texts and contexts
- Iudicium leprosorum: medical judgment
- The many labels of leprosy
- Definitions and explanations
- "Une maladie contagieuse et hereditaire"
- Causes, categories, and correlations
- Diagnosis: signs and symptoms
- Prognosis, prevention, and treatment.