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  • ANCIENTS AND MODERNS IN THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
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    ANCIENTS AND MODERNS IN THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
    ROGER FRENCH
    The theme of this book is the growth of the European tradition of medical theory, from the early Middle Ages until its collapse in the seventeenth century. Central to this tradition were ancient texts and the respect accorded to the ancients themselves by the moderns, the teachers and practitioners of medicine of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The chapters examine how the anc...

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  • MEDICINE FROM THE BLACK DEATH TO THE FRENCH DISEASE
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    MEDICINE FROM THE BLACK DEATH TO THE FRENCH DISEASE
    ROGER FRENCH / JON ARRIZABALAGA / ANDREW CUNNINGHAM / LUIS GARCÍA-BALLESTER
    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. ...

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  • A NEW WORLD OF ANIMALS
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    A NEW WORLD OF ANIMALS
    MIGUEL DE ASÚA / ROGER FRENCH
    Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story told in this book is woven out of the threads of those texts and pictures. A New World of Animals shows how the initial wonder at the new beasts gave way to a more utilitarian approach,...

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  • BEFORE SCIENCE
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    BEFORE SCIENCE
    ROGER FRENCH / ANDREW CUNNINGHAM
    The opposition of science and religion is a recent phenomenon; in the middle ages, and indeed until the middle of the nineteenth century, there was almost no conflict. In the Middle Ages the objective study of nature - the activity we now call science - was largely the province of religious men. This book looks at the origins of western science and the central role played by t...

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  • BRITISH MEDICINE IN AN AGE OF REFORM
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    BRITISH MEDICINE IN AN AGE OF REFORM
    ROGER FRENCH / ANDREW WEAR
    British Medicine in an Age of Reform, charts the nature and dynamics of the radical changes which occurred between 1780 and 1850 - a great turning point in British medicine. Medicine was reformed just as politics was being reformed. It became a recognizable profession, and at the same time there was an impetus from within to base the subject upon science. By the end of the 1850...

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  • ANCIENT NATURAL HISTORY
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    ANCIENT NATURAL HISTORY
    ROGER FRENCH
    Ancient Natural History surveys the ways in which people in the ancient world thought about nature. The writings of Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strabo, Pliny are examined, as well as the popular beliefs of their contemporaries. Roger French finds that the same natural-historical material was used to serve the purposes of both the Greek philosopher and the Christian allegorist, or ...

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