Medicine and society in medieval Europe, 500-1500
Katharine Park
The hallmarks of medieval medical care were its variety and intensity. Our own society boasts a relatively small (although growing) range both institutions publicly recognized practitioners, narrowly defined, similarly trained, socially homogeneous. Medieval society, on the other hand, like many present-day traditional societies, looked to much broader set healers strategies for precarious health. In part this situation reflected higher levels illness than we are used – that sprang from extensive poverty unhealthy living conditions as or more limits therapeutics. it itself. A millenium separated Europeans 1500 their counterparts in 500, encompassed changes arguably far radical those five centuries separate us them. Furthermore, Europe was diverse then now, when advances transportation communication social shifts have acted homogenize break down cultural linguistic barriers between nations, city countryside, rich poor.
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