Michael R. McVaugh

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Michael Rogers McVaugh (born December 9, 1938 in Washington, DC ) is an American historian of science . He is mainly concerned with the history of medicine in the Middle Ages and the early modern period .

Michael McVaugh graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and received his PhD from Princeton University in 1965 . He has been a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1964 . He was William Smith Welles Professor there until his retirement in 2007.

He dealt with the development of the medical sciences at universities of the Middle Ages (whereby he especially studied the University of Montpellier ) and the development of medicine and the medical profession in the Middle Ages (especially 13th and 14th centuries), medieval surgery and the exchange of medical knowledge from Arabic and Hebrew into Latin and vice versa. One focus is the Iberian Peninsula.

McVaugh was a visiting scientist at Magdalen College of the University of Oxford , at Clare College of the University of Cambridge and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris . He also did a lot of research in Spain. In 2010 he received the George Sarton Medal .

He has been one of the editors of the works (Opera Medica Omnia) of the medical doctor Arnau de Vilanova († 1311) by the University of Barcelona since 1975 and edited the surgical manual Inventarium sive Chirurgia magna by Guy de Chauliac (Brill 1997). He is also the editor of the medical writings of Moses Maimonides (versions in Arabic, Latin, Hebrew).

Fonts

  • Theriac at Montpellier 1285-1325 (with an edition of the 'Questiones de tyriaca' of William of Brescia). In: Sudhoffs Archiv 56, 1972, pp. 113-144.
  • The development of medieval pharmaceutical theory. In: Michael R. McVaugh (Ed.): Arnaldi de Villanova Opera medica omnia, II: Aphorismi de gradibus. Granada / Barcelona 1975, pp. 1-143.
  • Medicine before the Plague: Doctors and Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285–1335 , Cambridge University Press 1993 (received the Welch Medal)
  • The Rational Surgery of the Middle Ages. Sismel, Florence 2006.
  • Surgical Education in the Middle Ages. Florence 2006.
  • with Luis Garcia-Ballester, Agustin Rubio-Vela: Medical licensing and learning in fourteenth-century Valencia , American Philosophical Society 1989
  • with Seymour Mauskopf: The elusive science origins of experimental psychical research , The Johns Hopkins University Press 1980

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appreciation on the occasion of the Sarton Medal
personal data
SURNAME McVaugh, Michael R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McVaugh, Michael Rogers
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC