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This morning, I'm #_Revisiting a 2009 essay from @monicaMedHist, "Integrative Medicine: Incorporating Medicine and Health into the Canon of Medieval History," History Compass 7/4: 1218-1245
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It's so useful, because it does three things: first, points out a lack in the field (namely, medical history hasn't been central to "medieval history" like law or religion)--as she says, we should recognize that "pursuit of health my have *itself* been a driving force in" history
Second, it offers a diagnosis for why that's the case, noting that scholars of medieval medicine have often been doing the work of collating MSS and collecting evidence that isn't already organized in an archive---an inherency argument, so you know it went right to my heart!
