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The Etruscans and the history of dentistry : the Golden Smile through the ages / Marshall Joseph Becker and Jean MacIntosh Turfa.
Penn Museum Library RK651 .B376 2017
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LIBRA RK651 .B376 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Becker, Marshall Joseph, author.
- Turfa, Jean MacIntosh, 1947- author.
- Series:
- Routledge monographs in classical studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dentistry, Ancient.
- Etruscans--Medicine.
- Etruscans.
- Prosthodontics--History.
- Prosthodontics.
- Prosthesis--History.
- Prosthesis.
- Dentistry--History.
- Dentistry.
- History.
- Dental Prosthesis--history.
- Gold Alloys--history.
- Esthetics, Dental--history.
- Prosthesis Design--history.
- History, Ancient.
- Western World--history.
- Italy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Dental Prosthesis--history.
- Gold Alloys--history.
- Esthetics, Dental--history.
- Prosthesis Design--history.
- History, Ancient.
- Western World--history.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 415 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- Summary:
- The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture, and their place within the framework of a general history of dentistry, with special emphasis on appliances, from Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Egypt to modern Europe and the Americas. Included are many of the ancient literary sources that refer to dentistry-or the lack thereof-in Greece and Rome, as well as the archaeological evidence of ancient dental health. The book challenges many past works in exposing modern scholars' fallacies about ancient dentistry, while presenting the incontrovertible evidence of the Etruscans' seemingly modern attitudes to cosmetic dentistry. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Dentistry in medical history: classical roots
- Evidence from the ancient Near East: correcting misconceptions
- The dental prosthesis: an Etruscan invention
- Dental appliances and dentistry after the Etruscans, to the present day
- Catalogue of Etruscan and Roman-era dental appliances
- Concluding remarks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-410) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781138677913
- 1138677914
- OCLC:
- 953229783
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