Death on the Nile

Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-04-12323-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 228, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity

A pioneering comparative and multidisciplinary study of the interaction between local disease environments and demographic structure, this book breaks new ground in reconstructing the population history of Egypt during the Roman period and beyond.
Drawing on a wide range of sources from ancient census data and funerary commemorations to modern medical accounts, statistics and demographic models, the author explores the nature of premodern disease patterns, challenges existing assumptions about ancient age structure, and develops a new methodology for the assessment of Egyptian poplation size.
Contextualising the study of Roman Egypt within the broader framework of premodern demography, ecology and medical history, this is the first attempt to interpret and explain demographic conditions in antiquity in terms of the underlying causes of disease and death.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scheidel, Walter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Innere Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Über Autor(innen)

Walter Scheidel teaches Ancient History at the University of Chicago. He has published widely on ancient social and economic history, including 'Measuring sex, age and death in the Roman empire' (1996) and 'Debating Roman Demography' (Brill, 2001).