THURSDAY, April 25th at noon in HSSB 4041
\nNicole Archambeau, Dept of History & Religious Studies, UCSB
\n“Identifying Health Care Providers in the Later Middle Ages”<\/p>\n
What did people in the 14th century do when they were sick? The answer
\nwas often far more complex than traditional research in the history of
\nmedicine shows. By sifting through the narratives of people coping
\nwith their own and loved-ones’ health care, we find that people used
\nall available methods and even created new ones when needed. We also
\nsee that medieval concepts of health care extended beyond the
\nboundaries of the physical body to include the passions or what
\ncontemporaries called “accidents of the soul.” Healers and sufferers
\nsaw that sadness, fear, and anxiety could damage physical health and
\nwere health problems in their own right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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