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      Medical Care or Disciplinary Discourses? Preventive Measures against the Black Death in Late Medieval Paris: A Brief Review

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          Abstract

          Background:

          This paper examined the political and social implications of the Compendium de epidemia prescription written by the Masters of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris in the mid-14th century during the Black Death. This study aimed to examine how the effects of power as a discourse owned by medical knowledge are revealed.

          Methods:

          This paper outlines the composition of the contents based on the 1888 edition edited and translated by Émile H. Rébouis and notes the features of the prescription examined by the existing study of medical history rather than the causes of diseases.

          Results:

          Compendium de epidemia seems to have been written primarily for the royal family and nobles who ordered them when looking at prescription-related technologies. At the same time, under the influence of Islamic-Arabic academia, it clearly distinguishes the world of faith and the world of academia (intelligence), explaining the pathogenesis and infection pathways based on causality. The onset substrate is due to heat and humidity, and the prescription is to prevent the two from overdoing in the body. In particular, issues related to heat are criticized in connection with the value of life of knight-noblesse. This is in response to political criticism of the ineffectual French royal family and nobility at the beginning of the Hundred Years’ War and shows why this tract sets the utilitas publica at the forefront as an important purpose.

          Conclusion:

          The conclusion has shown how medical knowledge produced on the Black Death pandemic how they function as discourses that have a sort of power effect on the value of life of knight-noblesse. It is necessary to conduct if these phenomena can be found in other contemporary medical writings.

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                Journal
                Iran J Public Health
                Iran. J. Public Health
                IJPH
                IJPH
                Iranian Journal of Public Health
                Tehran University of Medical Sciences
                2251-6085
                2251-6093
                March 2017
                : 46
                : 3
                : 286-292
                Affiliations
                [1. ] Institute for Human Urbanities, University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea
                [2. ] Asia Contents Institute, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
                Author notes
                [* ] Corresponding Author: Email: syamony@ 123456konkuk.ac.kr
                Article
                ijph-46-286
                5395523
                42e6e597-b05b-4ede-9710-a5fbcaf84508
                Copyright© Iranian Public Health Association & Tehran University of Medical Sciences

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                : 22 August 2016
                : 12 December 2016
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                Public health
                black death,medical treatment,middle ages,knowledge/power
                Public health
                black death, medical treatment, middle ages, knowledge/power

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