Medicine & Disease

ISBN: 9780801878619
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
These twenty papers, which originated at or were inspired by a conference held in Maastricht in 1999, examine the history of medical care but mainly investigate the history of medical historiography itself. The discipline, the editors argue in ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521844550
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Medical practices changed enormously in the Mediterranean between the 11th and 14th centuries and the crusades undoubtedly had much to do with this. This study of injuries and the surgical treatment that was performed is part of a broader piece... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521812429
Published by : Cambridge University Press
A translation of Galen's Del alimentorum facultatibus , his 2nd-century physiological treatise which presents Galen's Aristotelian thinking on the medicinal benefit, or otherwise, of a wide range of common and exotic foods. The translation is ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004125124
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine
Volume: 26
This specialist thesis scrutinises Galen's understanding of the brain, both anatomically and philosophically, and his theories surrounding the nature of the mind as the driving force of the body. Sections examine Galen's philosophical and medic... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199253234
Published by : Oxford University Press
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... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199275878
Published by : Oxford University Press
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... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789026519239
Published by : A A Balkema
Archaeology constantly throws up surprises and one of these is the indisputable evidence that trepanation (making a hole in the skull, usually for medical purposes) was practised by some of our Neolithic and Bronze Age ancestors. Trepanation ha... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198509011
Published by : Oxford University Press
Man's evolution, and the development of cultures, has been paralleled and troubled by the evolution of infectious disease. These sixteen specialised essays, inspired by a symposium held in Jerusalem in 1997, examine in microscopic detail: the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714127941
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
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, initial... .... Learn More