On Monsters and Marvels
The Barnes & Noble Review {This work is} delightful, elegant, informative. . . . The format of the book adds much to its value as commentary and to the pleasure of reading an important work in the history of medicine. Pare funnels the thoughts and beliefs of the ancient world through medieval...
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The Barnes & Noble Review {This work is} delightful, elegant, informative. . . . The format of the book adds much to its value as commentary and to the pleasure of reading an important work in the history of medicine. Pare funnels the thoughts and beliefs of the ancient world through medieval concepts and ideas. Glimpses of the modern scientific enlightenment appear through occasional epidemiological observations. It is an insight into the way humans view the obscure, and readers also must take the work as suggesting how much further we must go to rid ourselves of the impedimenta of fabulous belief.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780226645636 (0226645630)
Publish date: October 1st 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
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