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Author: Claire Bubb Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 100915947X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 413
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Comprehensive study of the social and medical history of dissection in classical antiquity and the parallel development of anatomical texts.
Author: Claire Bubb Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 100915947X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 413
Book Description
Comprehensive study of the social and medical history of dissection in classical antiquity and the parallel development of anatomical texts.
Author: Claire Bubb Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009179853 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 413
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Dissection is a practice with a long history stretching back to antiquity and has played a crucial role in the development of anatomical knowledge. This absorbing book takes the story back to classical antiquity, employing a wide range of textual and material evidence. Claire Bubb reveals how dissection was practised from the Hippocratic authors of the fifth century BC through Aristotle and the Hellenistic doctors Herophilus and Erasistratus to Galen in the second century AD. She focuses on its material concerns and social contexts, from the anatomical subjects (animal or human) and how they were acquired, to the motivations and audiences of dissection, to its place in the web of social contexts that informed its reception, including butchery, sacrifice, and spectacle. The book concludes with a thorough examination of the relationship of dissection to the development of anatomical literature into Late Antiquity.
Author: Maria Gerolemou Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009092790 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 347
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This innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity. It examines the conception of the body and bodily processes in mechanical terms in ancient medical writings, and looks into how artificial bodies and automata were equally configured in human terms; it also investigates how this knowledge applied to the treatment of the disabled and the diseased in the ancient world. The volume examines the pre-history of what develops, at a later stage, and more specifically during the early modern period, into the full science of iatromechanics in the context of which the human body was treated as a machine and medical treatments were devised accordingly. The volume facilitates future dialogue between scholars working on different areas, from classics, history and archaeology to history of science, philosophy and technology.
Author: Vivian Nutton Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0415520940 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 506
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Combining archaeological evidence with the witness of written texts, Vivian Nutton offers a detailed history of medicine & medical knowledge in the ancient world.
Author: Anna M. Elsner Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009300083 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 713
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The experiences of health and illness, death and dying, the normal and the pathological have always been an integral part of literary texts. This volume considers how the two dynamic fields of medicine and literature have crossed over, and how they have developed alongside one another. It asks how medicine, as both science and practice, shapes the representation of illness and transforms literary form. It considers how literary texts across genres and languages of disease have put forward specific conceptions of medicine and impacted its practice. Taking into account the global, multilingual and multicultural contexts, this volume systematically outlines and addresses this double-sidedness of the literature-medicine connection. Literature and Medicine covers a broad spectrum of conceptual, thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches that provide a solid foundation for understanding a vibrant interdisciplinary field.
Author: Frank N. Magill Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135457395 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 1354
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Containing 250 entries, each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains examines the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. Much more than a 'Who's Who', each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements, and conclude with a fully annotated bibliography. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. Any student in the field will want to have one of these as a handy reference companion.
Author: Claire Bubb
Author: Claire Bubb
Author: Claire Bubb
Author: Maria Gerolemou
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Author: Vivian Nutton
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