TY - BOOK ID - 30741779 TI - Medieval pharmacotherapy, continuity and change PY - 2009 SN - 1282602527 9786612602528 9047424506 9789004171190 9789047424505 9781282602526 9004171193 PB - Leiden Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Pharmacology KW - Medicine, Medieval. KW - Pharmacopoeias. KW - History. KW - Medicine, Medieval KW - Medieval medicine KW - Pharmacy KW - Dispensatories KW - Medicine KW - Drug Therapy KW - History, Medieval. KW - Medicine, Arabic KW - History of Medicine, Medieval KW - History of Medicine, Renaissance KW - Medicine, Medieval History KW - Medicine, Renaissance KW - Medieval History (Medicine) KW - Renaissance Medicine KW - Medieval History KW - Histories, Medieval (Medicine) KW - History Medicine, Medieval KW - History, Medieval (Medicine) KW - Medieval Histories (Medicine) KW - Medieval History Medicine KW - history. KW - Avicenna, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30741779 AB - The development of medical drug therapy in medieval times can be seen as an interplay between tradition and innovation. This book follows the changes in the therapy from the Arabic medicine of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) to Latin medical scholasticism, aiming to trace both the continuity and the development in the theory and practice of medieval drug therapy. In this delicate balance between change and continuity a crucial role was played by the scientific community through critical rejection or acceptance of new ideas. The drug choices were in most cases rational also from the point of view of contemporary medical theory. The method used in the book for studying these choices could promote the development of a novel methodology for historical ethnopharmacology. ER -