Medicine and care of the sick in Utopia

Author:Marc'hadour, G

Article Title:Medicine and care of the sick in Utopia

Abstract:
These two excerpts from Utopia have the medical world as a common denominator: in one, Raphael tells us how medicine is, in Utopia, considered a branch of philosophy and a homage to the Creator; in the other, he describes the spacious hospitals where the patients are treated with affectionate care by the best of physicians.

Keywords: plague; Royal College of Physicians; Galen; Bude; Hippocrates

DOI: 10.3366/more.2001.38.2.6

Source:MOREANA

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