Bodily fluids in antiquity
"From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexuality, politics, emotions, and morality, and how those ideas shaped later European thought. Comprising 25 chapters acr…
"Mit der Veröffentlichung der Kleinen Schriften von Jutta Kollesch soll deren langjährige Tätigkeit als Leiterin des Corpus Medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum an der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin gewürdigt werden. Die Sammlung enthält Publikationen zur antiken Medizin von ihr…
"Mit der Veröffentlichung der Kleinen Schriften von Jutta Kollesch soll deren langjährige Tätigkeit als Leiterin des Corpus Medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum an der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin gewürdigt werden. Die Sammlung enthält Publikationen zur antiken Medizin von ihr…
Rather than viewing Hippocratic ideals and values as an unchanging legacy, historians have increasingly explored the ways in which Hippocrates and his medicine have been constructed and reconstructed over time. This book examines the multiple uses, constructions, and meanings si…
Reinventing Hippocrates
by Cantor, David, Congress, Philadelphia)
fromHistory of medicine in context
Today, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, generally designed and assembled according to the individual's appearance and functional needs with a view to being both as unobtrusive and as useful as possible. In classical antiquity, however, this…
Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the acquisition and maintenance of good physical and mental health and well-being. Focussing on the period from th…
Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the acquisition and maintenance of good physical and mental health and well-being. Focussing on the period from th…
