Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32558-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Band 42, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 609 g

Reihe: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition

The history of healthcare in the classical world suffers from notable neglect in one crucial area. While scholars have intensively studied both the rationalistic medicine that is conveyed in the canonical texts and also the ‘temple medicine’ of Asclepius and other gods, they have largely neglected to study popular medicine in a systematic fashion. This volume, which for the most part is the fruit of a conference held at Columbia University in 2014, aims to help correct this imbalance. Using the full range of available evidence - archaeological, epigraphical and papyrological, as well as the literary texts - the international cast of contributors hopes to show what real people in Antiquity actually did when they tried to avert illness or cure it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, William V

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on the Contributors

1 Popular Medicine in the Classical World
W.V. Harris
2 Pharmakopolai: A Re-Evaluation of the Sources
Laurence M.V. Totelin
3 Asclepius: A Divine Doctor, A Popular Healer
Olympia Panagiotidou
4 Anatomical Votives: Popular Medicine in Republican Italy?
Rebecca Flemming
5 Between Public Health and Popular Medicine: Senatorial and Popular Responses to Epidemic Disease in the Roman Republic
Caroline Wazer
6 Metals in Medicine: From Telephus to Galen
Julia Laskaris
7 Crossing the Borders Between Egyptian and Greek Medical Practice
Isabella Andorlini
8 Representations of the Physician in Jewish Literature from Hellenistic and Roman Times
Catherine Hezser
9 Fear, Hope and the Definition of Hippocratic Medicine
Chiara Thumiger
10 Medical Care in the Roman Army during the High Empire
Ido Israelowich
11 How Popular Were the Medical Sects?
David Leith
12 Popular Medicines and Practices in Galen
Danielle Gourevitch
13 Folk Medicine in the Galenic Corpus
Vivian Nutton

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

W. V. Harris (D.Phil. Oxford) is Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the editor of Mental Disorders in the Classical World (Brill, 2013); his new book, Roman Power, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2016.

Contributors are Isabella Andorlini, Rebecca Flemming, Danielle Gourevitch, W. V. Harris, Catherine Hezser, Ido Israelowich, Julie Laskaris, David Leith, Vivian Nutton, Olympia Panagiotidou, Chiara Thumiger, Laurence Totelin and Caroline Wazer.