African Civilization: From Ancient Kingdoms to Modern Societies

Health, civilization and the state: a history of public health from ancient to modern times

to be purchased collectively either through social or private insurance. Doctors sought to monopolize access to the resulting funds, which required "walking a tightrope between markets and government". Government help was needed to eliminate competition but no control over the profession was to be ceded in return. Hence the evolution of powerful self-regulating bodies such as the GMC and the AM...

Contagion: perspectives from pre-modern societies

and necromancy; and magic as entertainment. Readers of this journal will be particularly interested in her section on medical magic. Jolly explains that this was an especially "fuzzy" area. Medieval medicine embraced both a material and spiritual understanding of illness in which physical and religious factors played a part. Within this context, it is often difficult to distinguish magical medi...

Latin Language and Latin Culture from ancient to modern times

The powerful placebo: from ancient priest to modern physician

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The powerful placebo: from ancient priest to modern physician

Many historians have used the placebo effect, alongside remission and self-limiting ailments, as a catch-all explanation for apparent cures in the past, whether at the hands of doctors or saints, but they have rarely exhibited much awareness of its ubiquity and potential scale or considered what behaviour and beliefs promote it. Since the business of historians lies mainly with beliefs and the ...