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Health in antiquity / edited by Helen King.
- Title
- Health in antiquity / edited by Helen King.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, c2005.
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- Additional Authors
- King, Helen, 1957-
- Description
- xxii, 292 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- How healthy were people in ancient Greece and Rome, and how did they think about maintaining and restoring their health? For students of classics, history or the history of medicine, answers to these and many previously untouched questions are dealt with by renowned ancient historians, classical scholars and archaeologists. Using a multidisciplined approach, the contributors assess the issues surrounding health in the Greco-Roman world from prehistory to Christian late antiquity. Sources range from palaeodemography to patristic and from archaeology to architecture and using these, this book considers what health meant, how it was thought to be achieved, and addresses how the ancient world can be perceived as an ideal in subsequent periods of history.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Geschiedenis (vorm)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-283) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Disease and the prehistory of the Aegean / Robert Arnott -- Health and disease in Greece : past, present and future / Charlotte Roberts ... [et al.] -- Health in Hellenistic and Roman times : the case studies of Paphos, Cyprus and Corinth, Greece / Sherry C. Fox -- Health and the life course at Herculaneum and Pompeii / Ray Laurence -- Holding on to health? : bone surgery and instrumentation in the Roman Empire / Ralph Jackson -- 'Without you no one is happy' : the cult of health in ancient Greece / Emma Stafford -- Hygieia at dinner and at the symposium / John Wilkins -- Women's health and recovery in the Hippocratic corpus / Helen King -- Drama and healing : ancient and modern / Karelisa Hartigan -- 'Curing' disability / Nicholas Vlahogiannis -- The salubriousness of the Roman city / Neville Morley -- Buildings for health : then and now / Peter Barefoot -- The health of the spiritual athlete / Gillian Clark -- 'Carrying on the work of the earlier firm' : doctors, medicine and Christianity in the Thaumata of Sophronius of Jerusalem / Dominic Montserrat.
- ISBN
- 0415220653 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2004017046
- OCLC
- 56014667
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library