Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean
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Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean

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Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Oxbow Books
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781782972389
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Diseases & Allergies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Conference Programme
  7. Contributors to this Volume
  8. Part I: Medicine and Archaeology
  9. Chapter 1: Medicine and Archaeology
  10. Chapter 2: Η Ιατρική στην Αιανή και την Άνω Μακεδονία κατά την Αρχαιότητα
  11. Chapter 3: Ancient Greek Votives, Vases and Stelae Depicting Medical Diseases
  12. Chapter 4: The Anatomical Ex-votos of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus
  13. Part II: Media
  14. Chapter 5: Providing Online Access to Graeco-Roman Medicine: BIUM’s Electronic Corpus of Ancient Physicians
  15. Part III: The Aegean
  16. Chapter 6: Healers and Medicines in the Mycenaean Greek Texts
  17. Chapter 7: Health and Healing on Cretan Bronze Age Peak Sanctuaries
  18. Chapter 8: Medical Knowledge on the Evidence of the Iliad
  19. Part IV: Medical Authors / Schools of Medicine
  20. Chapter 9: Αναζητώντας Ίχνη τουΙπποκρατικού Όρκου
  21. Chapter 10: Echoing Hippocrates: Aspects of Genre Intertextuality in the 5th Century BC
  22. Chapter 11: Ancient Medicine and Philosophy: a Philosopher’s Perspective
  23. Chapter 12: The Threshold of Pain: the Literary Embodiment of Pain and its Cognates in the Hippocratic Corpus
  24. Chapter 13: Le Traité de Galien De pulsibus ad tirones : Pratique Médicale et Représentation du Corps Humain
  25. Chapter 14: Γαληνού της Περγάμου «Τέχνη Ἰατρική»: Επιτομή της Ιατρικής και των Τομέων της
  26. Chapter 15: An Episode in the Historiography of Malaria in the Ancient World
  27. Chapter 16: Medical Dialogue in the Books on Dietetics in the De medicina: Celsus Τaking Αccount of the Patient as a Friend and Individual
  28. Chapter 17: The Contribution of the 4th Century North African Physician, Helvius Vindicianus
  29. Part V: Surgery
  30. Chapter 18: Back to Basics: Surgeons’ Knives in the Roman World
  31. Chapter 19: Alexander’s Wounds as a Paradigm for War Surgery
  32. Chapter 20: Surgery in Byzantium
  33. Chapter 21: Plastic Surgery of the Face in Byzantine Times
  34. Part VI: Medicaments and Cures
  35. Chapter 22: The Headache Remedies of the Pseudo-Apuleius. A Modern Reappraisal
  36. Chapter 23: Compound Medicines in Antiquity: a First Approach
  37. Chapter 24: Lemnian Earth, Alum and Astringency: a Field-based Approach
  38. Chapter 25: Ancient Desires to Shape Progeny: the Role of Vision and Soul in Greek and Jewish Sources of Late Antiquity
  39. Chapter 26: Medicine and Spas in the Roman Period: the Role of Doctors in Εstablishments with Mineral-Medicinal Waters
  40. Part VII: Skeletal Remains
  41. Chapter 27: Health Care and Survival of a Child with Cranial Trauma at Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain)
  42. Chapter 28: A Multidisciplinary Approach for the Study of the 11th–15th century AD Human Skeletal Remains from Palaion Demarheion, Nicosia, Cyprus
  43. 1st International CAPP Symposium ‘New Approaches to Archaeological Human remains in Cyprus’
  44. Chapter 29: Introduction to the Cyprus Ancient Population Project (CAPP) and the First CAPP Symposium
  45. Chapter 30: My Side of the Mountain: Initial Colonisation and Biological Regionalism on Cyprus through the Neolithic and Chalcolithic
  46. Chapter 31: Ante-mortem Tooth Loss in Chalcolithic Populations of Cyprus: Comparisons between Cemetery and Settlement
  47. Chapter 32: A Preliminary Look at the Health Status of Chalcolithic Populations: Inferences from Linear Enamel Hypoplasias
  48. Chapter 33: A Preliminary Analysis of Trauma Patterns in Early Christian Cyprus
  49. Part VIII: Asklepios and Incubation
  50. Chapter 34: The Development of the Practice of Incubation in the Ancient World
  51. Chapter 35: The Authority of Physicians as Dream Interpreters in the Pergamene Asclepieion
  52. Chapter 36: Asclepius the Divine Healer, Asclepius the Divine Physician: Epiphanies as Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools
  53. Chapter 37: Ὁ Ξενὼν τοῦ Ἁγίου Δημητρίου: Εἰκονογραφικὰ Ζητήματα
  54. Chapter 38: Πληροφορίες Ιατρικού Ενδιαφέροντος σε Πηγές του Κανονικού Δικαίου
  55. Chapter 39: Ασθένειες όπως Περιγράφονται σε Βίους Ιαματικών Αγίων και Τρόποι Θεραπείας αυτών
  56. Part IX: Byzantine, Arab and Medieval Sources
  57. Chapter 40: The Role of the Egyptian Sea and Land Routes in the Justinian Plague: the Case of Pelusium
  58. Chapter 41: Du Diagnostic différential aux Thérapies prudentes : Le traité de la rougeole et de la variole de Râzî
  59. Chapter 42: The Ancient Background of Witelo’s Theory of Vision