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  • Chapter 3 - John Mirfield’s Gouernayl of Helþe

  • Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki, Turo Hiltunen, University of Helsinki, Jeremy J. Smith, University of Glasgow, Carla Suhr, University of Helsinki
  • Book:
    Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820
    Published online:
    13 October 2022
    Print publication:
    13 October 2022, pp 32-51

  • Summary

    A version of John Mirfield’s Gouernayl of Helþe found in Wellcome Collection MS 674 demonstrates the continuing relevance and adaptability of medieval regimens to post-medieval contexts. First composed in the late fourteenth century, Mirfield’s work was among the earliest medical texts printed in late fifteenth-century England. It then reappeared, considerably revised, in a late sixteenth-century manuscript. This chapter traces the substantive changes made to Mirfield’s medieval regimen over time to understand which aspects of health culture were identified as needing revision, notably in terms of the non-naturals, and what was regarded as harmful or beneficial to health.

  • 8 - The sociology of health care in developing countries

  • Edited by David Hamburg, Norman Sartorius, World Health Organization, Geneva
  • Book:
    Health and Behaviour
    Published online:
    06 August 2010
    Print publication:
    17 August 1989, pp 178-191

  • Summary

    Health problems and health practices within a community can be considered functions of the prevailing ecological conditions, which include cultural, social, and economic factors. It is significant that the introduction of Western medicine sets very complex interactions in motion in a developing country. Numerous instances of adoption of the healing practices of qualified or nonqualified practitioners of the different indigenous systems of medicine, of homeopathy, or of other, nonprofessional healers were observed in the village study. Changes in the approaches of the World Health Organization (WHO) to the health services development of its Member States during the past three decades and a half reflect changes particularly in developing countries. Western medicine is grafted onto cultural conditions in which it is essentially an alien element; it sets in motion complex interactions with the pre-existing health culture.