![]() ![]() But he also connects medieval medical perspectives of anatomy, physiology, and pathology to larger social contexts, by exploring the assumptions about the body that underlay the ways medieval people lived, thought, prayed, ate, and drank. ![]() Hartnell, an art historian well versed in the history of medicine, demonstrates that medicine in the Middle Ages started from an understanding of the body (based in Galenic humoral theory) that bore little relation to our own. The author forces us to think about how differently other cultures thought (and think) about the body, health, and illness, from modern medical views. ![]() Jack Hartnell’s Medieval Bodies is a book about differences. ![]()
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