Part I. Medicina: healers and healing in early medieval Europe (500-1100). The fragmented heritage of ancient medicine. ; Christianity, disease, and medicine ; Medicine in early medieval courts and cloisters ; A regional case study: medicine in Anglo-Saxon England
Part II. Physica: the advent and impact of academic medicine (1100-1500). Salerno: medicine's "theoretical turn" and the rationalization of practice ; Via scolaris: medicine in the university ; Theory and practice in scholastic medicine ; Contested frontiers of scholastic medicine: medical astrology and medical alchemy
Part III. Medicine and society (1100-1500). What is disease? What is illness? Doctors' dilemmas and the meaning of suffering ; Who can help? Physicians, 'empirics," and the spectrum of practitioners ; What can they do? Clinical encounters in medieval Europe ; The ethics of medical care (1): conscience and the law ; The ethics of medical care (2): hospitals and the provision of charity ; The cultivation of health: lifestyle, regimen, and the medical self ; Satires and critiques of medicine
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