Osteoarchaeology, Biological Anthropology

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: 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

ISBN: 9780415520959
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

ISBN: 9781841713335
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR
Volume: 1138
This specialised and technical contribution to the debate surrounding the anatomical evolution of modern man and variations between Neanderthals and modern humans is based on the analysis of one specific jaw bone, the medial mandibular ramus, an... .... Learn More

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: 9781841713823
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This technical study of `biological population affinities amongst Eastern Mediterranean Chalcolithic and Bronze Age humn skeletal examples' is based on the author's analysis of 686 samples from eight sites in Cyprus, Greece and Syria. Parras f... .... 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