Ancient medicine : from Mesopotamia to Rome / Laura M. Zucconi.
2019
BL65.M4 .Z833 2019
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Title
Ancient medicine : from Mesopotamia to Rome / Laura M. Zucconi.
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ISBN
9781467457514 (e-book)
Published
Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2019]
Copyright
©2019
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 432 pages)
Call Number
BL65.M4 .Z833 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
201.661
Summary
This book by Laura Zucconi is an accessible introductory text to the practice and theory of medicine in the ancient world. In contrast to other works that focus heavily on Greece and Rome, Zucconi's Ancient Medicine covers a broader geographical and chronological range. The world of medicine in antiquity consisted of a lot more than Hippocrates and Galen.Zucconi applies historical and anthropological methods to examine the medical cultures of not only Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome but also the Levant, the Anatolian Peninsula, and the Iranian Plateau. Devoting special attention to the fundamental relationship between medicine and theology, Zucconi's one-volume introduction brings the physicians, patients, procedures, medicines, and ideas of the past to light.
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Includes bibliographical references and idex.
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