Medicine and healing in the ancient Mediterranean world : including the proceedings of the international conference with the same title, organised in the framework of the Research Project INTERREG IIIA : Greece-Cyprus 2000-2006, Joint Educational and Research Programmes in the History and Archaeology of Medicine, Palaeopathology, and Palaeoradiation, and the 1st International CAPP Symposium "New Approaches to Archaeological Human Remains in Cyprus" / / edited by Demetrios Michaelides ; contributors, George Androutsos [and sixty three others]
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Medicine and healing in the ancient Mediterranean world : including the proceedings of the international conference with the same title, organised in the framework of the Research Project INTERREG IIIA : Greece-Cyprus 2000-2006, Joint Educational and Research Programmes in the History and Archaeology of Medicine, Palaeopathology, and Palaeoradiation, and the 1st International CAPP Symposium "New Approaches to Archaeological Human Remains in Cyprus" / / edited by Demetrios Michaelides ; contributors, George Androutsos [and sixty three others]
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 610.937 |
| Soggetto topico: | Medicine, Ancient |
| Archaeology - Mediterranean Region | |
| History, Ancient | |
| Middle Ages | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | MichaēlidēsDēmētrēs |
| AndroutsosGeorge | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Chapter 19: Alexander's Wounds as a Paradigm for War SurgeryChapter 20: Surgery in Byzantium; Chapter 21: Plastic Surgery of the Face in Byzantine Times; Part VI: Medicaments and Cures; Chapter 22: The Headache Remedies of the Pseudo-Apuleius. A Modern Reappraisal; Chapter 23: Compound Medicines in Antiquity: a First Approach; Chapter 24: Lemnian Earth, Alum and Astringency: a Field-based Approach; Chapter 25: Ancient Desires to Shape Progeny: the Role of Vision and Soul in Greek and Jewish Sourcesof Late Antiquity |
| Chapter 26: Medicine and Spas in the Roman Period: the Role of Doctors in Εstablishments with Mineral-Medicinal WatersPart VII:Skeletal Remains ; Chapter 27: Health Care and Survival of a Child with Cranial Trauma at Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain); Chapter 28: A Multidisciplinary Approach for the Study of the 11th-15th century AD Human Skeletal Remains from Palaion Demarheion, Nicosia, Cyprus; 1st International CAPP Symposium 'New Approaches to Archaeological Human remains in Cyprus'; Chapter 29: Introduction to the Cyprus Ancient Population Project (CAPP) and the First CAPP Symposium | |
| Chapter 30: My Side of the Mountain: Initial Colonisation and Biological Regionalism on Cyprus through the Neolithic and Chalcolithic | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past - from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources. The 42 papers presented here cover many aspects medicine in the Mediterranean world during Antiquity and early Byzantine times, bringing together both internationally established specialists on the history of medicine and researchers in the early stages of their career. The contribu |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Medicine and healing in the ancient Mediterranean world |
| ISBN: | 1-78297-236-6 |
| 1-78297-238-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461045103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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