Medicine and hygiene in the works of Flavius Josephus /

This volume deals with the medical and paramedical topics, compiled from the works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian who lived in the first century C.E. in Judea, and later in Rome. The study of medicine from ancient Jewish sources has focused on the Bible and the Talmud, the content of whic...

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Main Author: Kottek, Samuel S.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden [Netherlands] ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1994.

Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine 9.
Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813.

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Call Number: R135.5 .K68 1994

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-203) and index. 
505 0 0 |a Preliminary Material -- Josephus, the man and the scholar -- Physicians and Healing Personnel -- Diseases and Epidemics -- Hygiene and Public Health -- War Injuries and Traumatology -- Psychiatry and Psychology -- Therapeutics and Materia Medica -- Medical Metaphors -- Epidemics in Ancient Lore: from Thucydides to Josephus -- Hygiene and Healing among the Essenes: the testimony of Josephus -- Josephus on Suicide -- King Herod's Disease(s) -- Josephus the Physician: A Medieval Legend -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Studies in Ancient Medicine. 
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