Leprosy in premodern medicine : a malady of the whole body / Luke Demaitre.

Author
Demaitre, Luke E., 1935- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Description
xv, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    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 judicious diagnosis could spare healthy people from social ostracization and help the afflicted get a license to beg.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-310) and index.
    Contents
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 9780801886133 ((hdbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0801886139 ((hdbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2006026074
    OCLC
    70921424
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