AS.140.105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Roman Empire, Social Reality, Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Al-Razi

• School: JHU
• Department: AS History of Science & Technology, AS History, AS Public Health Studies
• Course: AS.140.105
• Professor: Le Jacq, Seth Stein

Document Summary

Christian clergy as healers; arab-islamic medicine and the greek medical tradition. Clergy as healers important healing figures in the latin west. Regular clergy live in monastic communities and follow some type of rule. Secular clergy li(cid:448)e out i(cid:374) the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld (cid:894)do(cid:374)"t li(cid:448)e u(cid:374)de(cid:396) a (cid:396)ule(cid:895) among the general public. Cle(cid:396)gy f(cid:396)e(cid:395)ue(cid:374)tly (cid:449)o(cid:396)ked as heale(cid:396)s (cid:894)i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t to (cid:373)o(cid:374)asti(cid:272) life(cid:895), although (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) what exact proportion of them were healers. Religious men studied medicine formally in elite educational institutions. The figure of the learned and clinically practicing monk was important in monastic society. People saw monasteries as healing places either you go to the monastery or have the monk make a house-call. Petrus hispanus started as a monastic doctor and made his way to become. Shows that jews are important medical practitioners (including elite level) Not very effective because high-ranking religious officials employ jewish physicians.