UID:
almafu_9959242381202883
Format:
1 online resource (375 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-78297-236-6
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1-78297-238-2
Content:
There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources. The 42 papers presented here cover many aspects medicine in the Mediterranean world during Antiquity and early Byzantine times, bringing together both internationally established specialists on the history of medicine and researchers in the early stages of their career. The contributions are grouped under a series of headings: medicine and archaeology; media (online access to electronic corpus); the Aegean; medical authors/schools of medicine; surgery; medicaments and cures; skeletal remains; new research in Cyprus; Asklepios and incubation; and Byzantine, Arab and medieval sources. These subject areas are addressed through a combination of wide ranging archaeological and osteological data and the examination and interpretation of philosophical, literary and historiographical texts to provide a comprehensive suite of studies into early practices in this fundamental field of human experience.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Chapter 19: Alexander's Wounds as a Paradigm for War SurgeryChapter 20: Surgery in Byzantium; Chapter 21: Plastic Surgery of the Face in Byzantine Times; Part VI: Medicaments and Cures; Chapter 22: The Headache Remedies of the Pseudo-Apuleius. A Modern Reappraisal; Chapter 23: Compound Medicines in Antiquity: a First Approach; Chapter 24: Lemnian Earth, Alum and Astringency: a Field-based Approach; Chapter 25: Ancient Desires to Shape Progeny: the Role of Vision and Soul in Greek and Jewish Sourcesof Late Antiquity
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Chapter 26: Medicine and Spas in the Roman Period: the Role of Doctors in Εstablishments with Mineral-Medicinal WatersPart VII:Skeletal Remains ; Chapter 27: Health Care and Survival of a Child with Cranial Trauma at Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain); Chapter 28: A Multidisciplinary Approach for the Study of the 11th-15th century AD Human Skeletal Remains from Palaion Demarheion, Nicosia, Cyprus; 1st International CAPP Symposium 'New Approaches to Archaeological Human remains in Cyprus'; Chapter 29: Introduction to the Cyprus Ancient Population Project (CAPP) and the First CAPP Symposium
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Chapter 30: My Side of the Mountain: Initial Colonisation and Biological Regionalism on Cyprus through the Neolithic and Chalcolithic
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78297-235-8
Language:
English
