Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE): A Sourcebook 9780520299702, 9780520971325, 2022052882, 2022052883, 9780520299726

Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE): A Sourcebook [1 ed.] 0520299701, 9780520299702, 9780520299726, 9780520971325

This sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome. Covering a wi

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The Ancient Mediterranean Social World : A Sourcebook 0802873561, 9780802873569

What was the ancient world like? Ancient sources tell us a great deal about the cultural patterns and values that prevai

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Healing Traditions: Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions 9780812200539

In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions

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Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World. From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500–1000 CE 1009170015, 9781009170017

During the period 500–1000 CE Egypt was successively part of the Byzantine, Persian and Islamic empires. All kinds of ev

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Buddhism and Medicine in Japan: A Topical Survey (500-1600 CE) of a Complex Relationship 9783110576214, 9783110573503, 9783110762952

This book demonstrates the close link between medicine and Buddhism in early and medieval Japan. It may seem difficult t

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Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West

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Sourcebook for ancient Mesopotamian medicine 9781589839717, 9781589839694, 9781589839700

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Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador 9780520975682

In the early to mid-twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and Guatemala sought to expand Western medicine within

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Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery 9780195059564, 0195059565, 9798676404345

After an overview of the history of Indian medicine in its religious context, this volume focuses on the content of Budd

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The Public Lives of Ancient Women 500 BCE-650 CE 900453329X, 9789004533295

Covering a broad chronological and geographic range and a great variety of source types, this volume examines the presen

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