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Drawing on the methods of a wide range of academic disciplines, this volume shifts the focus of the history of the body, exploring the many different ways in which its physiology and its fluids were understood in pre-modern European thought.
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This volume offers a fresh analysis of the position of On the Sacred Disease in the scientific tradition by giving due weight to the influence on it of magico-religious medicine and sophistic oratory.
€206.00$267.00
Diocles of Carystus was one of the most prominent medical authorities in antiquity. This two volume set presents all the Greek, Latin and Arabic sources for his views with facing English translation, a commentary and a discussion of their intellectual context.
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This volume is the first monograph to deal with the subject of battle trauma in antiquity; it discusses medical and practical aspects of wound treatment, war wounds as a topos in literature and the archaeological evidence.
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This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of medicine. Special attention is given to medical doxography, i.e. the description of the characteristic doctrines of the great medical authorities of the past.
€158.00$205.00
This edition of the Stephanus Commentary on Galen's Therapeutics to Glaucon sheds important light on the nature and extent of medical education in the West on the eve of the Arab conquest.
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This collection of thirteen studies by leading experts is devoted to particular problems of the textual transmission of ancient medicine in papyri, manuscripts and printed books, and to select questions relating to the interpretation of these sources and their historical significance.
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This edition of Greek literary papyri referring to surgery provides new information on a brilliant but not well-known period of the history of surgery and how this medical discipline was taught and practised in Greco-Roman Egypt
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The 14 papers of this book represent the first attempt to explore systematically Galen's major contribution in the complex area of ancient pharmacology.