IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 532: Everyday Medicine: Medical Ideas in Non-Medical Texts
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | History Lab, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
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| Organiser: | Claire Trenery, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Claire Trenery, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Paper 532-a | 'Non te despera de Spera Pictagoria': The Sphere of Life and Death and Learned Medical Treatises in England, c. 1300-1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Medicine, Science |
| Paper 532-b | 'Ye that wyll lette gude men blode': A York Bloodletting Poem (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine, Science |
| Paper 532-c | Medical Practice in Early Medieval Law (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Law, Medicine |
| Abstract | This session examines the interaction between university-based medicine and that of 'everyday' men and women. 'Everyday' medicine refers to healing outside the sphere of traditional learned medicine, such as occult practices, practical medical manuals, and literary interpretations of medical ideas. An exploration of such texts gives an insight into how learned medicine was adapted and used by non-learned society and how it co-existed with alternate healing practices. Was there a distinct boundary between the 'learned' and the 'everyday' or did medical ideas weave throughout the written record, from the physician to the surgeon and from the monastery to the courtroom? |