Popular medicine in Graeco-Roman antiquity : explorations /

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 n...

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Other Authors: Harris, William V.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Series: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 42.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303867.

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Call Number: R138 .P67 2016

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 Popular Medicine in the Classical World /
  • W.V. Harris
  • 2 Pharmakopōlai: 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.