Medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE)

• Verfasst von: Upson-Saia, Kristi [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Marx, Heidi [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Secord, Jared [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE)
• Titelzusatz: a sourcebook
• Verf.angabe: Kristi Upson-Saia, Heidi Marx, and Jared Secord
• Verlagsort: Oakland, California
• Verlag: University of California Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: xi, 432 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, 1 Karte
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-520-29970-2
• ISBN: 978-0-520-29972-6
• Schlagwörter: (g)Griechenland <Altertum> / (g)Römisches Reich / (s)Medizin / (s)Gesundheit / (s)Heilung / (z)Geschichte 500 v. Chr.-600
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: XB 2800
• K10plus-PPN: 1847816282

Abstract

"This sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome. It includes a wide-ranging collection of textual sources - many hard to access, and some translated into English for the first time - as well as artistic, material, and scientific evidence. Introductory chapters and accompanying commentary provide substantial context, making the sourcebook accessible to readers at all levels. Readers will come away with a broad sense of the illnesses people in ancient Greece and Rome experienced, the range of healers from whom they sought help, and the various practices they employed to be healthy"--