Medicine & Disease

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9783806219500
Published by : Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH & Co.
Supported throughout by numerous colour photographs of medieval manuscript illuminations, paintings and objects, this well-presented study explores the medical practices of the Middle Ages, focusing on the essential part that clerics, and God, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780252029561
Published by : University of Illinois Press
To date, the pathbreaking medical contributions of the early Mesopotamians have been only vaguely understood. Due to the combined problems of an extinct language, gaps in the archaeological record, the complexities of pharmacy and medicine, an... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004144309
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This collection of papers, from the XIth International Hippocrates Colloquium held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2002, studies the Hippocratic writings in their relationship to the intellectual, social, cultural and literary cont... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004146969
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This book examines the knowledge and therapeutic use of opium and various species of poppy by physicians in ninth-century Baghdad (the leading medical centre then) as seen in key works by six outstanding physicians, with reference to others. Th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780860789437
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
The papers collected here first of all reflect Vern Bullough's concern to examine how knowledge was transmitted from one generation to the next and the impact this had on new developments in medicine and science. Universities, Medicine and Sci... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780752414614
Published by : Tempus Publishing Ltd
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 o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780754636977
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Attitudes towards sickness among the Dominican and Franciscan Orders were very much guided by the example set by their founders' lives and illnesses, although this is an aspect of monastic life that is not well recorded. Based to a large extent... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415520942
Published by : Routledge Ltd
In the Greek world there was much debate and discussion about issues of medicine and disease, and not only among doctors. This well-researched study of ancient medicine from the Greeks to Late Antiquity is based on archaeological and written ev... .... Learn More