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Author(s): Demetrios Michaelides
ISBN(s): 9781782972358, 1782972358
Edition: 1
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Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1782972358 
ISBN 13: 9781782972358
Author: Demetrios Michaelides

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 contributions are grouped under a series of headings: medicine and archaeology; media (online access to electronic corpus); the Aegean; medical authors/schools of medicine; surgery; medicaments and cures; skeletal remains; new research in Cyprus; Asklepios and incubation; and Byzantine, Arab and medieval sources. These subject areas are addressed through a combination of wide ranging archaeological and osteological data and the examination and interpretation of philosophical, literary and historiographical texts to provide a comprehensive suite of studies into early practices in this fundamental field of human experience.

Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean World 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Medicine and Archaeology

Chapter 1: Medicine and Archaeology
Chapter 2: Medicine in Aiane and Upper Macedonia during Antiquity
Chapter 3: Ancient Greek Votives, Vases and Stelae Depicting Medical Diseases
Chapter 4: The Anatomical Ex-votos of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus

Part II: Media

Chapter 5: Providing Online Access to Graeco-Roman Medicine: BIUM’s Electronic Corpus of Ancient Physicians

Part III: The Aegean

Chapter 6: Healers and Medicines in the Mycenaean Greek Texts
Chapter 7: Health and Healing on Cretan Bronze Age Peak Sanctuaries
Chapter 8: Medical Knowledge on the Evidence of the Iliad

Part IV: Medical Authors/Schools of Medicine

Chapter 9: Searching for Traces of the Hippocratic Oath
Chapter 10: Echoing Hippocrates: Aspects of Genre Intertextuality in the 5th Century BC
Chapter 11: Ancient Medicine and Philosophy: a Philosopher’s Perspective
Chapter 12: The Threshold of Pain: the Literary Embodiment of Pain and its Cognates in the Hippocratic Corpus
Chapter 13: Le Traité de Galien De pulsibus ad tirones: Pratique Médicale et Représentation du Corps Humain
Chapter 14: The ‘Art of Medicine’ of Galen of Pergamon: Epitome of Medicine and its Different Fields
Chapter 15: An Episode in the Historiography of Malaria in the Ancient World
Chapter 16: Medical Dialogue in the Books on Dietetics in the De medicina: Celsus Taking Account of the Patient as a Friend and Individual
Chapter 17: The Contribution of the 4th Century North African Physician, Helvius Vindicianus

Part V: Surgery

Chapter 18: Back to Basics: Surgeons’ Knives in the Roman World
Chapter 19: Alexander’s Wounds as a Paradigm for War Surgery
Chapter 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 Sources of Late Antiquity
Chapter 26: Medicine and Spas in the Roman Period: The Role of Doctors in Establishments with Mineral-Medicinal Waters

Part 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
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
Chapter 31: Ante-mortem Tooth Loss in Chalcolithic Populations of Cyprus: Comparisons between Cemetery and Settlement
Chapter 32: A Preliminary Look at the Health Status of Chalcolithic Populations: Inferences from Linear Enamel Hypoplasias
Chapter 33: A Preliminary Analysis of Trauma Patterns in Early Christian Cyprus

Part VIII: Asklepios and Incubation

Chapter 34: The Development of the Practice of Incubation in the Ancient World
Chapter 35: The Authority of Physicians as Dream Interpreters in the Pergamene Asclepieion
Chapter 36: Asclepius the Divine Healer, Asclepius the Divine Physician: Epiphanies as Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools
Chapter 37: The Hostel of Saint Demetrios: Iconographic Issues
Chapter 38: Information of Medical Interest in Sources of Common Law
Chapter 39: Diseases as Described in the Lives of Healing Saints and the Means of Their Treatment

Part IX: Byzantine, Arab and Medieval Sources

Chapter 40: The Role of the Egyptian Sea and Land Routes in the Justinian Plague: The Case of Pelusium
Chapter 41: Du Diagnostic différential aux Thérapies prudentes: Le Traité de la rougeole et de la variole de Râzî
Chapter 42: The Ancient Background of Witelo’s Theory of Vision

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