Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge

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Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge is written by Geneviève Dumas and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004282440 (ISBN 10) and 9789004282445 (ISBN 13).

This book examines the social, institutional and cultural setting of medical practices in the medieval town of Montpellier which boasted one of the first universities of the middle ages and a famous school of medicine. Some of its most celebrated masters and their medical works have been thoroughly studied but few of them try to put these in context with a thriving urban community of merchants and craftsmen that were at the core of the city council. Their concurrent efforts will endow Montpellier of a rich health care system featuring not only the university masters but also the city’s barber-surgeons and apothecaries. Their collective fate is revealed here in an integrated picture of health and society in the middle ages.