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Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages / edited by Wendy J. Turner & Sara M. Butler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Medieval law and its practicePublisher: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (392 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004269118
  • 9004269118
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages.DDC classification:
  • 614/.1 23
LOC classification:
  • RA1021 .M43 2014
NLM classification:
  • W 611 GA1
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgements; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Medicine and Law: The Confluence of Art and Science in the Middle Ages; Medical Matters in Law and Administration of Law; Chapter 1. Compensating Body and Honor: The Old Frisian Compensation Tariffs; Chapter 2. Midwives in the Middle Ages? Birth Attendants, 600-1300; Chapter 3. Learned Men and Skilful Matrons: Medical Expertise and the Forensics of Rape in the Middle Ages; Chapter 4. Expert Examination of Wounds in the Criminal Court of Justice in Cocentaina (Kingdom of Valencia) during the Late Middle Ages.
Chapter 5. Forensic Evidence, Lay Witnesses and Medical Expertise in the Criminal Courts of Late Medieval Italy; Chapter 6. Mental Health as a Foundation for Suit or an Excuse for Theft in Medieval English Legal Disputes; Professionalization and Regulation of Medicine; Chapter 7. Making Right Practice? Regulating Surgery and Medicine in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Bologna; Chapter 8. Medical Licensing in Late Medieval Portugal; Chapter 9. Dreaming of Valencia's Social Order in Jaume Roig's Espill; Chapter 10. Portrait of a Surgeon in Fifteenth-Century England.
Medicine and the Law in Hagiography; Chapter 11. An Infirm Man: Reading Francis of Assisi's Retirement in the Context of Canon Law; Chapter 12. Medicine and Miracle: Law Enforcement in the Lives of Irish Saints; Concluding Remarks; Works Cited; Index.
Summary: The scholarly collection of Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages examines connections between doctors, lawyers, laws, regulations, professionalization, administration, literature, hagiography and health from an international perspective.
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Acknowledgements; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Medicine and Law: The Confluence of Art and Science in the Middle Ages; Medical Matters in Law and Administration of Law; Chapter 1. Compensating Body and Honor: The Old Frisian Compensation Tariffs; Chapter 2. Midwives in the Middle Ages? Birth Attendants, 600-1300; Chapter 3. Learned Men and Skilful Matrons: Medical Expertise and the Forensics of Rape in the Middle Ages; Chapter 4. Expert Examination of Wounds in the Criminal Court of Justice in Cocentaina (Kingdom of Valencia) during the Late Middle Ages.

Chapter 5. Forensic Evidence, Lay Witnesses and Medical Expertise in the Criminal Courts of Late Medieval Italy; Chapter 6. Mental Health as a Foundation for Suit or an Excuse for Theft in Medieval English Legal Disputes; Professionalization and Regulation of Medicine; Chapter 7. Making Right Practice? Regulating Surgery and Medicine in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Bologna; Chapter 8. Medical Licensing in Late Medieval Portugal; Chapter 9. Dreaming of Valencia's Social Order in Jaume Roig's Espill; Chapter 10. Portrait of a Surgeon in Fifteenth-Century England.

Medicine and the Law in Hagiography; Chapter 11. An Infirm Man: Reading Francis of Assisi's Retirement in the Context of Canon Law; Chapter 12. Medicine and Miracle: Law Enforcement in the Lives of Irish Saints; Concluding Remarks; Works Cited; Index.

The scholarly collection of Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages examines connections between doctors, lawyers, laws, regulations, professionalization, administration, literature, hagiography and health from an international perspective.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.

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