The figure of king Jaume I the Conqueror is well-known, but few
times his fundamental role when dealing with the first sanitary policies has been
raised. Medicine, at the height of the 13th century, was experiencing a principal
transformation that would mark its evolution during all the late Middle Ages. King
Jaume I constituted progressively amodel of doctor linked to university, and, at the
same time, he favoured the establishment of a good number of medical assistants
on valencian lands, which had just been conquered. Moreover, he created the first
institutions dedicated to watch over the public health of the new Valencian society

Ferragud, Carmel

The figure of king Jaume I the Conqueror is well-known, but few times his fundamental role when dealing with the first sanitary policies has been raised. Medicine, at the height of the 13th century, was experiencing a principal transformation that would mark its evolution during all the late Middle Ages. King Jaume I constituted progressively a model of doctor linked to university, and, at the same time, he favoured the establishment of a good number of medical assistants on valencian lands, which had just been conquered. Moreover, he created the first institutions dedicated to watch over the public health of the new Valencian societ

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Els Practicants de la medicina en la creació del regne de València (1238-1300)

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Els Practicants de la medicina en la creació del Regne de València (1238-1300)

Taking its cue from a case tried at the court of the «Justícia Criminal» of the city of Valencia at the end of the fifteenth century, the article studies the influential rôle that the professionals of medicine played in the de-cisions arrived at in late medieval courts of justice. From the claim for medical expenses by the victim of an injury and the analysis of the attitudes of the various people involved in the trial -plaintiff, accused, and witness-es-, it works out what kind of medical as-sistance Valencians sought, how they valued the prestige and assessed the competence of the doctor, and what made them choose or reject one or another physician or surgeon, either as healer or as witness. The result shows that the individuals chosen as expert witness had enormous prestige and exerted great political, social and professional influ-ence in the cit

El Metge sota sospita: actuació mèdica en els testimonis pericials a ferits davant la cort del justícia criminal de la ciutat de València (1396)

Hemeroteca Cientifica Catalana

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Els Practicants de la medicina en la creació del Regne de València (1238-1300)

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Repositori d'Objectes Digitals per a l'Ensenyament la Recerca i la Cultura

Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert

Repositori d'Objectes Digitals per a l'Ensenyament la Recerca i la Cultura

Hemeroteca Cientifica Catalana