The Francois Rabelais School of Medicine

摘要

This medical school takes Frangois Rabelais (c1494-1553), Franciscan monk, Bachelor of Medicine, and humanist, as its muse. Although his inspirational work Gargantua, and Pantagruel celebrates his abilities as a satirist and misogynist, his role as an educationalist has been overlooked. "He was a man intoxicated by every sort of learning and theory," according to one translator, "who, at the same time, had the earthy common sense of a peasant" In an increasingly divided world, with medicine increasingly preoccupied by technical elitism, Rabelais stands as a cogent model.