Medicine & Disease
The archaeology and cultural backdrop to the study of medicine and disease from the ancient world to the present day.
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Disability in Medieval Europe: Thinking about physical impairment during the high Middle Ages, c.1100-1400 [Hardback]
Irina Metzler (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9780415365031
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Oxbow says: In what must surely be the first detailed study of disability in the medieval period, Irina Metzler challenges our preconceptions of how the physically impaired were regarded and treated. Rather than a corpus of source material on t... .... Learn More -
Disability in Medieval Europe: Thinking about physical impairment during the high Middle Ages, c.1100-1400 [Paperback]
Irina Metzler (Author)
£23.50ISBN: 9780415582049
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Oxbow says: In what must surely be the first detailed study of disability in the medieval period, Irina Metzler challenges our preconceptions of how the physically impaired were regarded and treated. Rather than a corpus of source material on t... .... Learn More -
The Worst of Evils: The Fight Against Pain [Hardback]
Thomas Dormandy (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780300113228
Published by : Yale University Press
Oxbow says: Methods of controlling pain, whether treating a headache, or in anticipation of surgery, are taken for granted in modern life. Thomas Dormandy, a chemical pathologist, examines how we got to where we are today in his cultural histor... .... Learn More -
Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates [Paperback]
David Wootton (Author)
£10.99ISBN: 9780199212798
Published by : Oxford University Press
Oxbow says: The long journey of the medical profession from ancient times to the present day has not been a long continuum of improvements in making people better. As well as discoveries and innovations, there have been obstacles, resistance an... .... Learn More -
Primitive Surgery: An Overview [Paperback]
Ana Doria Buchan (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781841717470
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study attempts to show, that although the surgery of primitive peoples has held, even in the most ancient periods, an astonishing degree of technical efficiency, it has remained fairly undeveloped and limited in scope. This is due to the f... .... Learn More -
Aristotle's Problemata in Different Times and Tongues [Paperback]
P De Leemans (Author);M Goyens (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9789058675248
Published by : Leuven University Press
The present volume contains a collection of papers on the reception of Aristotle's Problemata, a multifaceted text asking various questions about medical, scientific or everyday topics. This text is one of the most neglected Aristotelian treati... .... Learn More -
The Latin Alexander Trallianus: The Text and Transmission of a Late Latin Medical Book [Paperback]
D R Langslow (Author)
Regular Price: £65.00
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9780907764328
Published by : Roman Society Publications
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 ... .... Learn More -
Health in Antiquity [Hardback]
Helen King (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780415220651
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Some ancients believed that disease and ill-health came from Pandora's jar, as prescribed in myth, whilst others saw man as the protagonist of his own ill-health. This collection of fourteen essays on health in antiquity takes an approach which... .... Learn More -
Health in Antiquity [Paperback]
Helen King (Author)
£24.95ISBN: 9780415486934
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Some ancients believed that disease and ill-health came from Pandora's jar, as prescribed in myth, whilst others saw man as the protagonist of his own ill-health. This collection of fourteen essays on health in antiquity takes an approach which... .... Learn More -
Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors amd Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease [Hardback]
Philip J Van der Eijk (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9780521818001
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This collection of selected (slightly revised) papers by Philip J van der Eijk, published during the 1990s and early 2000s, draws together his recent thinking on ancient Greek and Roman medicine and philosophy. The excellent forty-two page intr... .... Learn More