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A HISTORY OF MEDICINE

 

VOLUME I - PRIMITIVE AND ANCIENT MEDICINE

Primitive and Naturalistic Non-Scientific Medicine, Chinese, Hindu, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Persian, Biblical and American Pre-Columbian Medicine - More than 500 pages, over 1700 references. Second Edition, Omaha, Horatius Press, 1995. Reprinted 1999.

Table of Contents of Volume I

 

VOLUME II - GREEK MEDICINE

Medicine before Hippocrates, Hippocratic, Post-Hippocratic and Alexandrian Medicine - More than 600 pages, over 2500 references. Second Edition, Omaha, Horatius Press, 1996. Reprinted 1999.

Table of Contents of Volume II

 

VOLUME III - ROMAN MEDICINE

Medicine before Galen, Galenic, Post-Galenic, Talmudic, and Roman Military Medicine - More than 700 pages, over 3300 references. Omaha, Horatius Press, 1998. Reprinted 1999, 2001.

Table of Contents of Volume III

 

VOLUME IV - BYZANTINE AND ISLAMIC MEDICINE

Medicine in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds  More than 500 pages, over 1500 references.   Omaha, Horatius Press, 2001

Table of Contents of Volume IV

 

VOLUME V - MEDIEVAL MEDICINE

Medicine in the Medieval Latin World. More than 800 pages, over 2500 references.        Omaha, Horatius Press, 2003

Table of Contents of Volume V

 

VOLUME VI - RENAISSANCE MEDICINE

Medicine during the Renaissance. More than 800 pages, over 2500 references.        Omaha, Horatius Press, 2007

Table of Contents of Volume VI

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A HISTORY OF
  HUMAN RESPONSES TO DEATH

Mythologies, Rituals and Ethics, Lewiston, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990.

 Articles

1.  Prioreschi, P., "Possible Reasons for Neolithic Skull Trephining," Persp. Biol. Med., 34, 2, 296-303, 1991.

2.  Prioreschi, P., "Does History of Medicine Teach Useful Lessons?"  Persp. Biol. Med., 35, 1, 97-104, 1991.

3.  Mauriello, A., Prioreschi, P., and Friedlander, W. J., "Was William Harvey's Coat of Arms at Padua an Early Example of the Medical Use of the Caduceus?" J. Hist. Med. Allied Sc., 47, 2, 212-214, 1992.

4.  Prioreschi, P., "Physicians, Historians, and History of Medicine," Medical Hypotheses, 38, 97-101, 1992.

5.  Prioreschi, P., "Did the Hippocratic Physician Treat Hopeless Cases?" Gesnerus, 49, 341-350, 1992.

6.  Prioreschi, P., "Supernatural Elements in Hippocratic Medicine," J. Hist. Med. Allied Sc., 47, 389-404, 1992.

7.  Prioreschi, P., "Quadoque bonus dormitat Hippocrates: Induced Abortion and Embryos' Age in the Hippocratic Corpus," Acta Belgica Historiae Medicinae, 5, 4, 181-184, 1992.

8.  Prioreschi, P., "Skull trauma in Egyptian and Hippocratic Medicine," Gesnerus, 50, 167-178, 1993.

9.  Prioreschi, P., and Babin, D., "Ancient Use of Cannabis," Nature, CCCLXIV, 680, August 19, 1993.

10.  Prioreschi, P. "Anatomy of the Corpus Hippocraticum," Acta Belgica Historiae Medicinae, VI, 3, 131-140, 1993.

11.  Prioreschi, P., "Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Early Commentaries," Journal of Medical Humanities, 15, 1, 51-72, 1994.

12.  Prioreschi, P. and Brehm, E., "Male Homosexuality in Ancient Greece," Proceedings of the XXXIIIrd International Congress of History of Medicine, Granada, Spain, September 1992, pp. 1137-118.

13.  Prioreschi, P., "Experimentation and Scientific Method in the Classical World: their Rise and Decline," Medical Hypotheses, 42, 3, 135-148,1994.

14. Prioreschi, P., "The Hippocratic Oath: A Code for all Physicians, not a Pythagorean Manifesto," Medical Hypotheses, 44, 6, 447-462, 1995.

15.  Prioreschi, P., "The Hippocratic Oath," Proceedings of the XXXIVth International Congress of History of Medicine, Glasgow, Scotland, GB, September 1994, pp. 99-115.

16.  Prioreschi, P., "Aristotle's Tri-Chambered Heart and other Lapses" Acta Belgica Historia Medicinae, VII, 2, 82-90, 1994.

17.  Prioreschi, P., "Contraception and Abortion in the Greco-Roman World," Vesalius, I, ii, 77-87, 1995.

18.  Prioreschi, P., Babin, D., "Cos et Cnide," Histoire des Sciences Medicales, XXIX, 4, 317-324, 1995.

19.  Prioreschi, P., "Galenicae quastiones disputatae duae: rete mirabile and pulmonary circulation," Vesalius, II, 2, 67-78, 1996.

20.  Prioreschi, P.,  "The Founding of the Methodist School," Quaderni Internazionali di Storia della Medicina e della Sanita', V, 2, 3-10, 1996.

21.  Prioreschi, P., "Galen's Pulse Experiment," Asklepios, X, 52-59, 1996.

22.  Prioreschi, P., "The Hippocratic Oath, Abortion, Greek Homosexuality, and the Courts," Medical Sentinel, II, 2, 54-60, 1997.

23.  Prioreschi, P., Heaney Robert, P.; Brehm, E., "A Quantitative Assessment of Ancient Therapeutics: Poppy and Pain in the Hippocratic Corpus," Medical Hypotheses, LI, 325-331, 1998.

24.  Prioreschi, P., "Onward to Obscurantism!" Medical Sentinel, III, 5, 179-183, 1998.

25. Prioreschi, P. "Alternative Medicine in Ancient and Medieval History," Medical Hypotheses, LV, 319-325, 2000.

26. Prioreschi, P. "Determinants of the Revival of Dissection of the Human body in the Middle Ages," Medical Hypotheses, LVI, 229-234, 2001.

27. Prioreschi, P. "Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and the Concept of 'Radical Moisture'," Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine, I, 1, 35-40, 2002.

28. Prioreschi, P. "Al-Kindi: A Precursor of the Scientific Revolution," Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine, I, 2, 17-20, 2002.

29. Prioreschi, P. "The Idea of Scientific Progress in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages," Vesalius, VIII, 1, 34-44, 2002.

30. Prioreschi, P. "Dancing Mania and Tarantism," New Yperman, III, 17-20, 2002.

31. Prioreschi, P. "Medieval Anesthesia - the spongia somnifera," Medical Hypotheses, LXI, 213-219, 2003.

32. Prioreschi, P. "Egyptian and Greek Medicine," Turkish Journal of Medical Ethics, Law, and History, XI, 3, 149-161, 2003.

33. Prioreschi, P. "Andrea Cesalpino and Systemic Circulation," Annales Pharmaceutiques Françaises, LXII, 382-400, 2004.

34. Prioreschi, P. "Medical Ethics in Medieval Islam," Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine, III, 6, 44-48, 2004.

35. Prioreschi, P. "Alternative History of Medicine," The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, VIII, 2, 49-55, 2005.

36. Prioreschi, P. "Berengario da Carpi: Renaissance Anatomist," Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine, IV, 8, 39-41, 2005.

37. Prioreschi, P. "Paracelsus: A Reevaluation," Annales Pharmaceutiques Françaises, LXIV, 52-62, 2006.

38. Prioreschi, P. "Occultism in Medicine and in Everyday Life during the Renaissance." Turkish Journal of Medical Ethics, Law, and History, XV, 1, 12-18, 2007.

39. Prioreschi, P. "Medical Ethics during the Renaissance," Turkish Journal of Medical Ethics, Law, and History, XV, 3, 145-152, 2007.

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Book Reviews

1. Review of: J. Worth Estes, The Medical Skills of Ancient Egypt, Canton, Science History Publications, 1993 (revision of the 1989 edition). J. Hist. Med. Allied Sc., XLVIII, 485-486, 1993.

2. Review of: Lise Manniche, An Ancient Egyptian Herbal, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1989. J. Hist. Med. Allied Sc., XLVIII, 486-488, 1993.

3. Review of: Glenn Sonnedecker, David L. Cowen, and Gregory J. Higby (Eds.), Drugstore Memories: American Pharmacists Recall Life Behind the Counter, 1824-1933, Madison,  American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 2002. N. Engl. J. Med., XXXIL, 16 (Oct. 16), 1578-1579, 2003.

4. Review of: Michael Kennedy, A Brief History of Disease, Science, and Medicine: From the Ice Age to the Genome Project. Cranston, R.I., The Writers' Collective, 2004. Bull. Hist. Med., LXXIX, 383-384, 2005.

 

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