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There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past - from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources. The 42 papers presented here cover many aspects medicine in the Mediterranean world during Antiquity and early Byzantine times, bringing together both internationally established specialists on the history of medicine and researchers in the early stages of their career. The contributions are grouped under a series of headings: medicine and archaeology; media (online access to electronic corpus); the Aegean; medical authors/schools of medicine; surgery; medicaments and cures; skeletal remains; new research in Cyprus; Asklepios and incubation; and Byzantine, Arab and medieval sources. These subject areas are addressed through a combination of wide ranging archaeological and osteological data and the examination and interpretation of philosophical, literary and historiographical texts to provide a comprehensive suite of studies into early practices in this fundamental field of human experience.
Contents
Contents:PrefaceConference ProgrammeContributors to this VolumePART 1 MEDICINE AND ARCHAEOLOGY1. Medicine and ArchaeologyAthanasios Diamandopoulos2. - Georgia Karamitrou-Mendesidi and Kostas Moschakis3. Ancient Greek Votives, Vases and Stelae Depicting Medical DiseasesStefanos Geroulanos4. The anatomical ex-votos of Hellenistic and Roman CyprusDemetrios MichaelidesPART 2 MEDIA5. Providing Online Access to Graeco-Roman Medicine: BIUM's Electronic Corpus of Ancient PhysiciansGuy CoboletPART 3 THE AEGEAN6. Healers and Medicines in the Mycenaean Greek TextsRobert Arnott7. Health and Healing on Cretan Bronze Age Peak SanctuariesChristine Morris and Alan Peatfield8. Medical Knowledge on the Evidence of the IliadTamar Sukhishvili9. Dimitrios D. Lipourlis10. Echoing Hippocrates: Aspects of Genre Intertextuality in the 5th Century BCAthina Papachrysostomou and Georgios Gazis11. Ancient Medicine and Philosophy: a Philosopher's PerspectiveEleni M. Kalokairinou12. The Threshold of Pain: the Literary Embodiment of Pain and its Cognates in the Hippocratic CorpusNicholas A. E. Kalospyros13. Le Traitede Galien De pulsibus ad tirones : Pratique Medicale et Representation du Corps HumainDina Bacalexi14. " ": . Dimitrios C. Koutroumpas and Giorgos Papadopoulos15. An Episode in the Historiography of Malaria in the Ancient WorldPhilip van der Eijk16. Medical Dialogue in the Books on Dietetics in the De medicina: Celsus aking ccount of the Patient as a Friend and IndividualAurelien Gautherie17. The Contribution of the 4th Century North African Physician, Helvius VindicianusLouise CilliersPART 5 SURGERY18. Back to Basics: Surgeon's Knives in the Roman WorldRalph Jackson19. Alexander's Wounds as a Paradigm for War SurgeryAlfredo Musajo Somma20. Surgery in ByzantiumStefanos Geroulanos, Charalambos Panaretos and Euterpe Lymperopoulou21. Plastic Surgery of the Face in Byzantine TimesMarios Papadakis, Evangelos Sfakiotakis, Marios Fragakis, Constantinos Trompoukis, Maria Fragaki, Moschoula Leivadara and Andreas ManiosPART 6 MEDICAMENTS AND CURES22. The Headache Remedies of the Pseudo-Apuleius. A Modern ReappraisalGiorgio Zanchin23. Compound Medicines in Antiquity: a First ApproachAlain Touwaide24. Lemnian Earth, Alum and Astringency: a Field-based ApproachEuphemia Photos-Jones and Allan J. Hall25. Ancient Desires to Shape Progeny: The Role of Vision and Soul in Greek and Jewish Sources of Late AntiquityOhr Y. Margalit and Chariklia Tziraki-Segal26. Medicine and Spas in the Roman Period: the Role of Doctors in stablishments with Mineral-medicinal WatersSilvia Gonzalez SouteloPART 7 SKELETAL REMAINS27. Health Care and Survival of a Child with Cranial Trauma at Augusta Emerita (Merida, Spain)Filipa Cortes o Silva, Juana M rquez Perez, Jo o Rosa and Ana Luisa Santos28. A Multi-disciplinary Approach for the Study of the 11th-15th century AD Human Skeletal Remains from Palaion Demarheion, Nicosia, CyprusPopi Chrysostomou and Yiannis Violaris 1st International CAPP Symposium'New Approaches to Archaeological Human remains in Cyprus'29. Introduction to the Cyprus Ancient Population Project (CAPP) and the First CAPP SymposiumKirsi O. Lorentz30. My Side of the Mountain: Initial Colonisation and Biological Regionalism on Cyprus through the Neolithic and ChalcolithicZissis Parras31. Ante Mortem Tooth Loss in Chalcolithic Populations of Cyprus: Comparisons between Cemetery and SettlementKirsi O. Lorentz32. A Preliminary Look at the Health Status of Chalcolithic Populations: Inferences from Linear Enamel HypoplasiasMichelle Gamble and Kirsi O. Lorentz33. A Preliminary Analysis of Trauma Patterns in Early Christian CyprusSherry C. Fox, Ioanna Moutafi, Eleanna Prevedorou and Despina PilidesPART 8 ASKLEPIOS AND INCUBATION34. The Development of the Practice of Incubation in the Ancient WorldJuliette Harrisson35. The Authority of Physicians as Dream Interpreters in the Pergamene AsclepieionIdo Israelowich36. Asclepius the Divine Healer, Asclepius the Divine Physician: Epiphanies as Diagnostic and Therapeutic ToolsGeorgia Petridou37. : Charalambos Bakirtzis38. o . Father Vasileios Chr. Trompoukis39. Demetra PapaioannouPART 10 BYZANTINE, ARAB AND MEDIEVAL SOURCES40. The Role of the Egyptian Sea and Land Routes in Justinian Plague: the Case of PelusiumCostas Tsiamis, Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou and George Androutsos41. Du Diagnostic Differential aux Therapies Prudentes : Le traitede la rougeole et de la variole de RaziMehrnaz Katouzian-Safadi and Jean-Marc Bonmatin42. The Ancient Background of Witelo's Theory of VisionMaria-Magdalena Weker
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