Health in Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9780415486934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 298 str.

Helen King; Helen King

Opis

In the context of current medical and legal debates about access to health and the relationship between health and disease, archaeologists, classicists and ancient historians investigate ideas of health in antiquity.

Spis treści

1. Disease and the Prehistory of the Aegean  2. Health and Disease in Greece: Past, present and future  3. Health in Hellenistic and Roman Times: The case studies of Paphos, Cyprus and Corinth, Greece  4. Health and the Life Course at Herculaneum and Pompeii  5. Holding on to Health? Bone surgery and instrumentation in the Roman empire  6. 'Without You No One is Happy': The cult of health in ancient Greece  7. Hygieia at Dinner and at the Simposium  8. Women's Health and Recovery in the Hippocratic Corpus  9. Drama and Healing: Ancient and modern  10. 'Curing' Disability  11. The Salubriousness of the Roman City  12. Buildings for Health: Then and now 13. The Health of the Spiritual Athlete  14. 'Carrying on the Work of the Earlier Firm': Doctors, medicine and Christianity in the Thaumata of Sophronius of Jerusalem

O autorze

Helen King is Professor of History of Classical Medicine at the University of Reading. She is the author of Hippocrates' Women (1998) and The Disease of Virgins (2003).