Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE)

Autor*innen

• Kristi Upson-Saia
• Heidi Marx
• Jared Secord

Parameter

• Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften

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"This sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome. It includes a wide-ranging collection of textual sources - many hard to access, and some translated into English for the first time - as well as artistic, material, and scientific evidence. Introductory chapters and accompanying commentary provide substantial context, making the sourcebook accessible to readers at all levels. Readers will come away with a broad sense of the illnesses people in ancient Greece and Rome experienced, the range of healers from whom they sought help, and the various practices they employed to be healthy"--

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Einband: Paperback