Home Page Tuesday 22 May 2012


Quick Search

 

or
Browse by Subject

Find Us on Facebook!

Sale Bargains &
Special Offers

Distributed Titles

Current Catalogs and Leaflets
Take advantage of our latest offers

Information on Shipping Charges

Damaged Books

Conference Timetable

Request Catalogues


e-Mailing List
Be the first to hear about new offers and new sale books - join our e-mail list! Or enter your address to unsubscribe or change your profile

Practitioners, Practices and Patients: New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology

edited by Patricia Anne Baker and Gillian Carr

Medical archaeologists and anthropologists are both interested in the cultural constructions of disease, healing and medicine, but the interpretative methods used by the two groups are often quite different and interdisciplinary discussion is rare. The papers presented in this volume aim to bridge the disciplinary gap, to widen the field of interpretation, and to reconsider the cultural complexities of medical ideologies, beliefs and prac. 272p, 29 b/w illus, 11 tbs (Oxbow Books, August 2002)

ISBN-13: 978-1-84217-079-3
ISBN-10: 1-84217-079-1

Paperback. Price US $70.00
This book is generally in stock.

Review Quotes

"This book will be of interest to medical anthropologists and palaeopathologists, and also to a broader range of specialists"

Sonia R Zakrzewski
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2005)

"a stimulating volume"

Wolf-Rudiger Teegen
European Journal of Archaeology (2005)

Table of Contents

Medical anthropology, material culture, and new directions in medical archaeology (Elisabeth Hsu)
Diagnosing some ills: the archaeology, literature and history of Roman medicine (Patricia A Baker)
Tuberculosis: a multidisciplinary approach to past and current concepts, causes and treatment of this infectious disease (Charlotte Roberts)
A preliminary account of the doctor's grave at Stanway, Colchester (Philip Crummy)
A time to live a time to heal and a time to die: healing and divination in later Iron Age and Early Roman Britain (Gillian Carr)
A Computer simulation of Mambila divination (David Zeitlyn)
Beer, trees, pigs and chickens: medical tools of the Lohorung shaman and priest (Charlotte Hardman)
Healing here, there and in-between: a Tamu shaman's experience of international landscapes (Judith Pettigrew and Yarjung Tamu)
The Xaghra Shaman? (Simon Stoddart)
Tobacco and curing agency in Western Amazonian shamanism (Françoise Barbira Freedman)
Magic, healing, or death? Issues of Seidr, `balance', and morality in past and present (Jenny Blain)
Of crystal balls, political power, and changing contexts: what the clever women of Salerno inherited (Christopher Knüsel)
Lithic therapy in early Chinese body practices (Vivienne Lo)
Kill or cure: Athenian judicial curses and the body in fear (Ralph Anderson)
Etruscan female tooth evulsion: gold dental appliances as ornaments (Marshall Becker)


Related Titles

Browse other Medicine and Disease books

Browse other Anthropology books





We respect our customers' privacy and security.
The credit-card details form in our order process is secure-server protected. This means that your credit card details are scrambled in transit, and then stored securely so that we are the only people who can access your information.
We will not give or sell your personal information to any other company; nor will we send you any unsolicited e-mail. Users who sign up to our e-mailing list may unsubscribe at any time.

© Most of the descriptions on the website have been published in Oxbow Book News and other Oxbow catalogues, and are protected by copyright. If you wish to use any of the content on this website, please contact the web administrator for advice.