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1090 History of Medicine and Health Care 1 HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE - 2008 HONORS COLLEGE, HISTORY 1090, SOCIOLOGY 1488, SHRS 2906 Course Faculty: Jonathon Erlen, Ph.D. 648-8927; [email protected] Thomas Benedek, M.D. M. W. F. ll:00 - l2:15 P.M. SUGGESTED ADDITIONAL READING LIST AUGUST 25 INTRODUCTION Castiglioni, Arturo. A History of Medicine . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, l947. Garrison, Fielding H. An Introduction to the History of Medicine . Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders. Lyons, Albert S., and Petrucelli,, R. Joseph II. Medicine: An Illustrated History . New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., l978. Clarke, Edwin, ed. Modern Methods in the History of Medicine . London: Athlone Press, 1991. Bates, Don, et. al. Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions . NY: Cambridge University Press, 1995. AUGUST 27 MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE PRIOR TO THE ANCIENT GREEKS Estes, J. Worth. The Medical Skills at Ancient Egypt . Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1989. Rothschild, Bruce M. Paleopathology: a Disease in the Fossil Record . Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1993. Stetter, Cornelius. The Secret Medicine of the Pharoahs: Ancient Egyptian Healing . Chicago: Edition Q, 1993. Nunn, John F. Ancient Egyptian Medicine . Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Robert, Charlotte; Manchester, Keith. The Archaeology of Disease . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. Arnott, Robert; Finger, Stanley, and Smith, C.U.M., eds. Trepanation: History-Discovery-Theory . Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, 2003. AUGUST 29 HIPPOCRATIC MEDICAL CONCEPTS AND GREEK AND HELLENISTIC HEALTH CARE Phillips, E. D. Greek Medicine , London: Thames and Hudson, l973. Lloyd, G.E.R. Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece . Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983. Carrick, Paul. Medical Ethics in Antiquity . Dordrecht: D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1985. Smith, Wesley D. The Hippocratic Tradition . Ithaca, New York: Cornell Univ. Press, l979. Grmek, Mirko D. Diseases in the Ancient Greek World . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. Vallance, J.T. The Lost Theory of Asclepiades of Bithynia . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pinault, Jody R. Hippocratic Lives and Legends . Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992. Jouanna, Jacques. Hippocrates . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Garland, Robert. The Greek Way of Life from Conception to Old Age . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990. Longrigg, James. Greek Rational Medicine: Philosophy and Medicine from Alcmaecon to the Alexandrians. London: Routledge, 1993. 2 Hope, Valerie M.; and Marshall, Eireann, eds. Death and Disease in the Ancient City . London: Routledge, 2000. Hart, Gerald D. Asclepius: The God of Medicine . London: Royal Society of Medicine, 2000. Kapparis. Konstantinos. Abortion in the Ancient World . London: Duckworth, 2002. Lloyd, G.E.R. In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Demand, Nancy. Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. SEPTEMBER 3 ALEXANDRIAN AND ROMAN MEDICAL PRACTICES THROUGH GALEN Jackson, Ralph. Doctors and Diseases in the Roman Empire . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. Nutton, Vivian. Galen: Problems and Prospects . London: Welcome Institute for the History of Medicine, l979. Von Staden, Henrich. Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Scarborough, John. Roman Medicine . Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, l976. Barton, Tamsyn. Power and Knowledge: Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire . Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1994. Flemming, Rebecca. Medicine and the Making of Roman Women: Gender, Nature, and Authority from Celsus to Galen . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Cruse, Audrey. Roman Medicine . Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus, 2004. SEPTEMBER 5 CONTRIBUTIONS OF BYZANTINE AND ARABIC MEDICAL SCIENCE AND SCHOLARSHIP Ullman, Manfred, Islamic Medicine . Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, l978. Scarborough, John, ed. Symposium on Byzantine Medicine . Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, l985. Dols, Michael W., trans. Medieval Islamic Medicine: Ibn Ridman's Treatise "On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt ." Berkeley University of California Press, l984. Siraisi, Nancy G. Avicenna in Renaissance Italy . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Dols, Michael W. Majnun: The Madman in Medieval Islamic Society . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Bos, Gerrit, ed. Qusta Ibn Luqa’s Medical Regime for the Pilgrims to Mecca: the Risala fi tabir safar al-hajj . Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992. Perho, Irmeli. The Prophet’s Medicine: A Creation of the Muslim Traditionalist Scholars . Helsinki: Finnish Oriental Society. 1995. Borsch, Stuart J. The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. Promann, Peter E.; and Savage-Smith, Emilie. Medieval Islamic Medicine . Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007. SEPTEMBER 8 GALENISM: MEDICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE EUROPE BY CAREY BALABAN, PH.D. Temkin, Owsei. Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973. Rubin, Stanley. Medieval English Medicine . New York: Barnes and Noble Books. l974. 3 Kealey, Edward J. Medieval Medicus: A Social History of Anglo-Norman Medicine . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, l983. Siraisi, Nancy G. Medieval & Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. McVaugh, Michael R. Medicine before the Plague: Practitioners and their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285-1345 . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Renaissance Medical Learning: Evolution of a Tradition . Philadelphia: History of Science Society, 1991. Mitchell, Piers D. Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds, and the Medieval Surgeon . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Kerwin, William. Beyond the Body: The Boundaries of Medicine and English Renaissance Drama . Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Maclean, Ian. Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance: The Case of Learned Medicine . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Biow, Douglas. The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. SEPTEMBER 10 TO DISSECT OR NOT TO DISSECT? ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PERSPECTIVES BY CAREY BALABAN, PH.D. Knight, Bernard. Discovering the Human Body: How Pioneers of Medicine Solved the Mysteries of the Body's Structure and Function . New York: Lippincott, 1980. Schultz, Bernard. Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy . Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, l985. Sawday, Jonathan. The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture . London: Routledge, 1995. Cunningham, Andrew. The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients . Brookfield, VT: The Scholar Press, 1997. Siraisi, Nancy. G. The Clock and the Mirror: Girolomo Cardno and Renaissance Medicine . Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997. Carlino, Andrea. Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. SEPTEMBER 12 THE PLAGUE'S IMPACT ON EUROPEAN HEALTH CARE AND SOCIETY Ziegler, Philip. The Black Death . London: Penguin Books, l979. Calvi, Giulia. Histories of a Plague Year: The Social and the Imaginary in Baroque Florence . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Twigg, Graham. The Black Death: A biological Reappraisal . London: Batsford Academic and Educational, 1985. Platt, Colin. King Death: The Black Death and Its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England . London: UCL Press, 1996. Lynn, Martin A. Plague? Jesuit Accounts of Epidemic Disease in the 16th Century . Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1996. French, Roger, ed. Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease . Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Pub: 1998. Scott, Susan. Biology of Plagues: Evidence from Historical Populations . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 4 Cohn, Samuel K., Jr. The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe . London: Arnold, 2002. Kelly, John. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time . N.Y.: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. Byrne, Joseph P. Daily Life During the Black Death . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. Little, Lester K. Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750 . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. SEPTEMBER 15 MEDIEVAL MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE IN WESTERN EUROPE BY CAREY BALABAN, PH.D. Siraisi, Nancy G. Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils: Two Generations of Italian Medical Learning. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, l98l. Siraisi, Nancy G. Medieval & Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Wear, Andrew, and French, Roger. The Medical Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, l985. McVaugh, Michael R. Medicine before the Plague: Practitioners and their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285-1345 . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Cameron, M.L. Anglo-Saxon Medicine . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rawcliffe, Carole. Medicine & Society in Late Medieval England . Stroud, Gloucestershire: A. Sutton, 1995. Amundson, Darrel W. Medicine, Society and Faith in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
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