Published in 1998, covering the period from the triumphant economic revival of Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, this book offers an examination of the state of contemporary medicine and the subsequent transplantation of European medicine worldwide.
Introduction: The Long Fifteenth Century of Medical History.
2. Jewish
Treatsies on the Black Death (1350-1500): A Preliminary Study.
3. Mater
Medicinarium: English Physicians and the Alchemical Elixir in the Fifteenth
Century.
4. Fascinating Women: The Evil Eye in Medical Scholasticism.
5.
Medicine at the German Universities, 1348-1500: A Preliminary Sketch.
6.
Stones, Bones and Hernias: Surgical Specialists in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth
Century Italy.
7. Treatment of Hernia in the Later Middle Ages: Surgical
Correction and Social Construction.
8. Thomas Fayreford: An English
Fifteenth-Century Medical Practicioner.
9. The Death of a Medieval Text: The
Articella and the Early Press.
10. Epidemics and the State Medicine in
Fifteenth-Century Milan.
11. Coping with French Disease: University
Practicioners Strategies and Tactics in the Transition from the Fifteenth to
the Sixteenth Century.
12. Anatomical Rationality.
Roger French