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Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon
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by Piers D. Mitchell
Sales Rank: 492082
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Discount: 7 %
$52.00
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 303 pages
Published by: Cambridge University PressEdition: 1st Edition May 31, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0521036607
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521036603
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Product Review
"a stimulating bookA diligent and generally careful study of a substantial corpus of worksprovide a sound historical basis; integrated with this is an array of archaeological evidencethe scene is set for a comprehensive study of the subjectan original and significant book, breaking fresh ground for the History of the crusades and medieval Europe."
Journal of Military History, Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London
"Mitchell is to be commended for bringing together Medical expertise, documentary and narrative sources, and the fruits of archaeology in a very productive way. His evidence provides graphic illustration of the hazards and brutality of war as well as of the pragmatic measures that the Western Medical community adopted to cope with the casualties of conflict."
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, James William Brodman, Ph.D., University of Central Arkansas
"The themes of this book arecentral to the History of the crusades, yet this is the first systematic, full-length study of crusade medicinea fascinating account that both tests the assertions of the past and brings to bear the new techniques of the presentThis is an great book, enlightening on several areas of medieval life beyond its specific subject."
American Historical Review, Malcolm Barber, University of Reading
"Piers D. Mitchell's perception of military medicine covers a rich spectrum: not only battlefield injuries and their treatment and injuries resulting from torture, but also complementary fields, such as Medical practicioners, hospitals, elective surgery, and Medical legislation."
The International History Review
Book Description
This is the first book to be published on any aspect of medicine in the crusades. It will be of interest not only to scholars of the crusades specifically, but also to scholars of medieval Europe, the Byzantine world and the Islamic world. Focusing on injuries and their surgical treatment, Piers D. Mitchell considers Medical practitioners, hospitals on battlefields and in towns, torture and mutilation, emergency and planned surgical procedures, bloodletting, analgesia and anesthesia. He provides an assessment of the exchange of Medical knowledge that took place between East and West in the crusades, and of the Medical negligence legislation for which the kingdom of Jerusalem was famous. The book presents a radical reassessment of many outdated misconceptions concerning medicine in the crusades and the Frankish states of the Latin East.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon (Hardcover)
This book isn't very large, but it's to the point, it's unbiased, and it's packed full of information. The price tag is steep, but it's a good book that you will have trouble finding the likes of anywhere else. The information on the subject it gives is directly from medieval sources and compiled and studied by a knowledgeable author. This gives the usual exquisite effect of contradicting modern ideas on the subject (where most people believe what uneducated cliche is written now, not having read what was really done then). It gives excellent accounts and information on hospitals, wounds, treatments, and techniques, among other things, in good, though not thorough, detail. It is a great resource, and has an excellent bibliography and references. This book is even quite worthwhile to those who study martial history, as most of the subject is due to the effects of contemporary martial arts, and includes information on remains of such victims that can be found no where else. I hold back the 5th star due to the price tag, and due to the short, yet conversely uneducated/outdated theories on some weaponry, thier effects, armours and tactics. The price tag is only justifiable by lack of anything else like this on the market, not by volume or quantity of content or binding, though it is of quality.
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