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Enlightened 'Dark Age' medicine?
Jul. 24th, 2007 08:04 amhttp://www.livescience.com/health/070723_medieval_medicine.html
'University of Nottingham historian Christina Lee, co-organizer of the second conference on Disease, Disability and Medicine in Early Medieval Europe said, "The question we should be asking is whether illness was actually seen as a problem. What was classified as a disability? What was an impairment? The answer can't be generalized." The views presented challenge traditional views of Dark Age attitudes being unenlightened and guided by the unscientific doctrines of the church.'
'University of Nottingham historian Christina Lee, co-organizer of the second conference on Disease, Disability and Medicine in Early Medieval Europe said, "The question we should be asking is whether illness was actually seen as a problem. What was classified as a disability? What was an impairment? The answer can't be generalized." The views presented challenge traditional views of Dark Age attitudes being unenlightened and guided by the unscientific doctrines of the church.'
