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Medicine and Disease

Practitioners, Practices and Patients: New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology
edited by Patricia Anne Baker and Gillian Carr
Medical care in the past, and indeed present societies, can be studied in a number of different ways, including palaeopatholoy, palaeobotany, literary evidence, material culture and different medical ideologies and belief systems. These 15 papers from a conference held at Magdalene College, Cambridge in 2000 explore these diverse forms of interpretation, though largely focusing on material culture aspects. 272p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books ...
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Galen: Method of Medicine, Vol. 1, Books 1-4
edited and translated by Ian Johnston and G.H.R. Horsley
New to the Loeb Classical Library is Method of Medicine, a systematic and comprehensive account of the principles of treating injury and disease and one of Galen's greatest and most influential works. Enlivening the detailed case studies are many theoretical and polemical discussions, acute social commentary, and personal reflections. Greek text with parallel English translation 461p (Loeb, Harvard UP 2011)
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Galen: Method of Medicine, Vol.2, Books 5-9
edited and translated by Ian Johnston and G.H.R. Horsley
New to the Loeb Classical Library is Method of Medicine, a systematic and comprehensive account of the principles of treating injury and disease and one of Galen's greatest and most influential works. Enlivening the detailed case studies are many theoretical and polemical discussions, acute social commentary, and personal reflections. Greek text with parallel English translation. 541p (Loeb, Harvard UP 2011)
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Traumatologische und Pathologische Veranderungen an Prahistorischen und Historischen Skelettresten
edited by Jurgen Piek and Thomas Terberger
twelve essays which look at examples of skeletal remains which bear evidence of damage caused by violence or of corrective surgery, dating from the mesolithic to the early modern era, along with more general theoretical papers. German text. 162p col illus (VML 2008)
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Vitamin C for prevention of CRPS-I in traumatology and orthopaedic surgery
by Paul E. Zollinger
Complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS-I), formerly known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, can occur after a trauma to an arm or leg. CRPS is frequently seen after wrist fractures. The diagnosis of CRPS is based on clinical signs and symptoms. According to Veldman et al. it is characterized by unexplained diffuse pain, differences in skin colour and temperature relative to the other limb, diffuse oedema, and limited active range of motion. ...
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The Latin Alexander Trallianus: The Text and Transmission of a Late Latin Medical Book
by David R Langslow
The present work offers an extensive introduction to the text and transmission of the ancient Latin version of the medical works "Therapeutica" and "On Fevers" of the great sixth-century Greek doctor Alexander of Tralles. The importance of the Latin Alexander in medieval medicine in the West is seen in the richness of both mainstream and secondary, excerpting manuscript-traditions. The tradition is such that the reconstructed Latin text promises ...
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History of the Black Death in Ireland
by Maria Kelly
Despite being somewhat hampered by a paucity of explicit source material, especially when compared with other areas such as England, Maria Kelly undertakes the history of the Black Death in Ireland. Arriving in Ireland in 1348, Kelly traces how the disease got here and how it then spread. She tracks its progress from town to village assessing the impact it had on urbam and rural lives and work, the response of the Church and how it affected the ...
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Roman Medicine
by Audrey Cruse
Although Rome inherited much of its medical knowledge from Greece and the Hellenistic world, discoveries of elaborate medical kits, skeletons exhibiting treatments, buildings with sophisticated and hygienic water systems, medical books and so on, demonstrate that Roman practitioners took medicine to new heights. This accessible study, firmly targeted at the general reader, sets the scene with an overview of Greek and Egyptian practices before ...
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In the Grip of Disease
Lloyd, G E R
In the Republic Plato stated that virtue `would be a kind of health and beauty and good condition of the soul, and vice would be disease, ugliness, and weakness', emphasising the close association made between Greek medicine and thought. Based on a series of lectures given between 1997 and 2000, this study looks at Greek ideas on medical theory and practice, philosophy and religion as seen in literary works and historiography. Lloyd ...
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Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome
edited by Ken Arnold and Danielle Olsen
Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936) is well known as a giant in the world of pharmaceuticals, but most people know very little about his other philanthropic interests. This book brings to our attention the Wellcome museum that he set up, initially a collection of curios for his amusement and to aid students in their medical research. Packed full of photographs, these seven essays approach different aspects of the museum and its collection ...
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