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Author Anglo-Dutch Wellcome Symposium (2007 : Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Title Medicine and space : body, surroundings and borders in antiquity and the Middle Ages / edited by Patricia A. Baker, Han Nijdam, Karine van 't Land
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 320 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), plans
Series Visualising the Middle Ages, 1874-0448 ; v. 4
Visualising the Middle Ages ; v. 4. 1874-0448
Contents pt. 1. Spaces of anatomy -- pt. 2. The body and space -- pt. 3. Surroundings -- pt. 4. Hospitals and architecture
Summary This volume contributes to medical history in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by significantly widening our understandings of health and treatment through the theme of space . The fundamental question about how space was conceived by different groups of people in these periods has been used to demonstrate the multi-variant understandings of the body and its functions, illness and treatment, and the surrounding natural and built environments in relation to health. The subject is approached from a variety of source materials: medical, philosophical and religious literature, archaeological remains and artistic reproductions. By taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject the volume offers new interpretations and methodologies to medical history in the periods in question. Contributors are Helen King, Michael McVaugh, Maithe Hulskamp, Glenda McDonald, Roberto Lo Presti, Fabiola van Dam, Catrien Santing, Ralph Rosen, and Irina Metzler
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index
Subject Medicine, Medieval -- Congresses
Philosophy, Medieval -- Congresses
Mind and body -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Space -- Philosophy -- Congresses
Medicine, Medieval.
Space perception.
Philosophy, Medical -- history
Anatomy -- history
Architecture as Topic -- history
History, Ancient
History, Medieval
Space Perception
space perception.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
Space perception
Medicine, Medieval
Mind and body
Philosophy, Medieval
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Baker, Patricia Anne
Nijdam, Han
Land, Karine van 't.
ISBN 9789004226500
9004226508
Other Titles Medicine & space