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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
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 100915947X
Comprehensive study of the social and medical history of dissection in classical antiquity and the parallel development of anatomical texts.
Author : Galen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1108009441
This edition of Galen's Anatomical Procedures (c. AD 200) offers parts of book 9 and books 10-15.
Author : Michael Squire
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 24,33 MB
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0857738569
The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and point of departure. This book is the first concerted attempt to grapple with that legacy: it explores the complex relationship between Graeco-Roman images of the body and subsequent western engagements with them, from the Byzantine icon to Venice Beach (and back again). Instead of approaching his material chronologically, Michael Squire faces up to its inherent modernity. Writing in a lively and accessible style, and supplementing his text with a rich array of pictures, he shows how Graeco-Roman images inhabit our world as if they were our own. The Art of the Body offers a series of comparative and thematic accounts, demonstrating the range of cultural ideas and anxieties that were explored through the figure of the body both in antiquity and in the various cultural landscapes that came afterwards. If we only strip down our aesthetic investment in the corpus of Graeco-Roman imagery, Squire argues, this material can shed light on both ancient and modern thinking. The result is a stimulating process of mutual illumination - and an exhilarating new approach to Classical art history.
Author : Helen King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,27 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134599730
This book looks at issues surrounding health in a variety of ancient Mediterranean societies.
Author : Peter N. Singer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190913681
The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216 CE), arguably the most important medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world. It contains essays by thirty leading experts on Galen's life and background, his medical theories, his therapeutic and clinical practices, and his philosophical contributions in the areas of logic, epistemology, causation, scientific method, and ethics. The authors also discuss the most important pathways of the transmission of his texts and his intellectual legacy, from late antiquity to early modern times and from western Europe to Tibet and China.
Author : Vivian Nutton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1000963861
The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds, written by the foremost expert on the subject, has been updated to incorporate the many new discoveries made in the field over the past decade. This revised volume includes discussions of several new or forgotten works by Galen and his contemporaries, as well as of new archaeological material. RNA analysis has expanded our understanding of disease in the ancient world; the book explores the consequences of this for sufferers, for example in creating disability. Nutton also expands upon the treatment of pre-Galenic medicine in Greece and Rome. In addition, subtitles and a chronology will make for easier student consultation, and the bibliography is substantially revised and updated, providing avenues for future student research. This third edition of Ancient Medicine will remain the definitive textbook on the subject for students of medicine in the classical world, and the history of medicine and science more broadly, with much to interest scholars in the field as well.
Author : Anna M. Elsner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009300083
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
Page : 1354 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135457395
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 : Vivian Nutton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
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ISBN : 3031695658
Author : Johan Ludvig Heiberg
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Science
ISBN :