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].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Medicine in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Conference), Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Michaēlidēs, Dēmētrēs, editor.

Androutsos, George, contributor.

Conference Name:

Medicine in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Conference) (2008 : Nicosia, Cyprus), author.

Medicine in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Conference)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Ancient.

Archaeology--Mediterranean Region--Congresses.

Archaeology.

History, Ancient--Congresses.

History, Ancient.

Middle Ages--Congresses.

Middle Ages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Oxbow Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782972365

1782972366

9781782972389

1782972382

OCLC:

878301174