False Care and the Canterbury Cure: Chaucer Treats the New Galen

Author / Editor
Smith, Kirk L.

Title
False Care and the Canterbury Cure: Chaucer Treats the New Galen

Published
Literature and Medicine 27 (2008): 61-81.

Description
PhyT expresses its narrator's concern with "fiduciary" ethics and asserts the principle that "responsible professionals abjure exploitation." Such concerns are part of the late medieval professionalization of medical practice, so the Tale is appropriate to its teller.

Chaucer Subjects
Physician and His Tale