AL-KINDĪ, A NINTH-CENTURY PHYSICIAN, PHILOSOPHER, AND SCHOLAR

Where the philosopher finishes, the physician begins: medicine and the arts course in thirteenth-century Oxford.

In the thirteenth century the English universities were different from others, particularly those in the south of Europe, in two important ways: they taught more natural philosophy and less medicine. But the survival of students' notes from the second half of the century shows that in the formal course of lectures on natural philosophy attention was paid to medicine inside the arts course. The ...

Maimonides (1138-1204): rabbi, physician and philosopher.

Positive reinforcement according to Maimonides, the 12th century Jewish philosopher.

Maimonides, arguably the most influential Jewish scholar ever, offers an analogy remarkably similar in ‘‘spirit’’ to positive reinforcement approaches to education. While discussing a matter of faith in his commentary on a tractate of the Talmud (see Touger, 1994), Maimonides walks the potential teacher through the essential steps of effective education. He clearly delineates the contingencies ...

Vocabularies of Grief and Consolation in Ninth-Century Francia

The 21st century GP: physician and priest?

drug', and considered the benefits, side-effects, and overdose effects of this drug. 3 From this perspective, Balint asked doctors to recognise that the GP role goes beyond their medical expertise. Currently, the training of GPs is systematic and deliberate, encompassing some time in hospital specialties and at least a year in general practice under supervision. GPs are no longer freshly qualif...