The Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy Podcast, brought to you with the support of the philosophy department at Kings

College London and the LMU in Munich, online at www. History of Philosophy.net. Today's episode will be an interview about medieval medicine with Monica Green, who is professor

of history at Arizona State University.

Hi Monica.

Hello, how are you today?

I'm good.

Thanks for coming on the podcast. Thank you. We are going to be talking about medieval medicine and let's start with what I think is a very basic question of how we know anything about medieval medicine.

There are quite a number of surviving treatises on medical subjects,

so that's obviously one body of literature

that we can draw on.

But I know from reading your work that you also

think historians of medicine should be drawing

on a wider range of texts.

So for example, you mentioned legal treatises.

And we can probably also learn something about medieval medicine from artifacts of physical things like say talismans or even medical instruments.

So there's probably a lot you could say here but you could you give us some kind of idea of the range of sources that we can draw on as historians here?

Certainly.

One of the things I'm trying to do is persuade general historians that the work of telling the story of the history of

health and the history of disease is everybody's job is that everybody who ever lived had a body.

Probably most people who ever lived

had something go wrong with their body at some point.

You know, they stubbed their toe,

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