An account of the medical world in eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death.

List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The medical history of a royal family; 2. Medieval health manpower; 3. The success of medical learning; 4. A spectrum of practice; 5. The response to illness and the maintenance of health; 6. Patient-practitioner relationships; 7. Medicine's social role; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.