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Historiografia , Medicina , Mundo Romano/história , História do Século XX , História Antiga , EspanhaAssuntos
Autoria , Livros Ilustrados , Idioma , Bibliotecas Médicas , Livros Raros , Antropologia Cultural/educação , Antropologia Cultural/história , Colecionamento de Livros/economia , Colecionamento de Livros/história , Colecionamento de Livros/legislação & jurisprudência , Livros Ilustrados/história , Canadá , Diversidade Cultural , Europa (Continente) , História da Medicina , História do Século XV , História do Século XVI , História Medieval , Bibliotecas Médicas/economia , Bibliotecas Médicas/história , Bibliotecas Médicas/legislação & jurisprudência , Livros Raros/história , Universidades/economia , Universidades/história , Universidades/legislação & jurisprudênciaRESUMO
This paper aims to draw attention to some of the problems in traditional accounts of the revival of classical medicine in the Renaissance. The rediscovery of Galen from 1525 onwards, and the success of Vesalian anatomy in the 1540s, have encouraged historians to read back into the period from 1490 to 1530 ideas promoted by only a handful of individuals, and to assume that the rhetoric of the reformers was swiftly successful. This was rarely the case. Few could read Greek, the manifesto of Leoniceno in 1490 demanding a return to Greek as the basis of medicine was hardly implemented before the 1530s. Instead, it was Latin authors, both from the past and among the new Humanists, who were most important in the transformation of medical ideas in the first quarter of the sixteenth century.
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Terapias Complementares/história , Filosofia Médica/história , Europa (Continente) , História do Século XV , História do Século XVI , História Antiga , Humanos , Manuscritos Médicos como Assunto/históriaRESUMO
Hieronymus Gemusaeus (1505-1544), Professor of Medicine at Basle, is the earliest known reader of Vesalius' "Fabrica", commenting on it in a preface dated 1 August 1543.
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Anatomia/história , História do Século XVI , SuíçaRESUMO
Contrary to popular belief, the Hippocratic Oath (the Oath) is no fixed and unalterable document of medical ethics, but has been constantly modified over the centuries. Nor was it ever widely sworn or imposed as a condition for obtaining a degree or entering practice. The earliest certain evidence for the Oath taken in a university comes from 1558, and not until 1804 is there evidence for it being sworn by graduands or students. The demand for medical oaths and declarations is largely a feature of the second half of the twentieth century, favoured by physicians but often viewed with suspicion by patients.
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Códigos de Ética , Juramento Hipocrático , História do Século XVI , História do Século XVII , História do Século XVIII , História do Século XIX , História do Século XX , História Antiga , América do Norte , Religião e Medicina , Reino UnidoAssuntos
Materia Medica/história , Farmacologia/história , História Antiga , Humanos , Mundo Romano , Reino UnidoRESUMO
This paper looks at a variety of relatively unfamiliar texts in which doctors are reported as acting together, in worship, in medical groups, in practice, and in teaching. It concludes that there may have been far more healers than has been often supposed, who learned their medicine in a variety of ways. Their social status depended to a large extent on the community in which they practised, but, for the most part, doctors associated, or were presumed to associate, with craftsmen of moderate wealth and were rarely part of the local elite.
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Terapias Complementares/história , Educação Médica Continuada/história , Prática Profissional/história , Grécia , História Antiga , História Medieval , Humanos , Relações Interprofissionais , Relações Médico-Paciente , Cidade de RomaRESUMO
This paper focuses on demonstrating the weakness of the traditional date for Galen's death. It shows that there are good grounds from both within the Galenic Corpus and outside it for thinking that he lived at least until he was eighty. Information from Byzantine and Arab scholars from the sixth century onwards suggests that he had died in the reign of Caracalla, perhaps in 216.
