| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Studies in Ancient Medicine ; volume 41 |
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Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 41.
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| Contents |
Greeks and Egyptians -- Medicine and the gods -- Theoretical perspectives -- Responses to illness -- Identifying medical practitioners -- Medicine in Alexandria |
| Summary |
Current questions over whether Hellenistic Egypt should be understood in terms of colonialism and imperialism, multicultural separatism, or integration and syncretism have never been closely studied in the context of healing. Yet illness affects and is affected by nutrition, disease and reproduction within larger questions of demography, agriculture and environment. It is crucial to every socio-economic group, all ages, and both sexes; perceptions and responses to illness are ubiquitous in all kinds of evidence, both Greek and Egyptian and from archaeology to literature. Examing all forms of healing within the specific socioeconomic and environmental constraints of the Ptolemies' Egypt, this book explores how linguistic, cultural and ethnic affiliations and interactions were expressed in the medical domain |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from electronic title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed July 13, 2018) |
| Subject |
Medicine, Egyptian.
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Medicine, Ancient.
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Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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Human body -- Egypt
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Medical logic -- History
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Physicians -- Egypt -- History
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Medicine -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History
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Medicine -- History.
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Medicine -- Religious aspects.
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History of Medicine
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Religion and Medicine
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Health Personnel -- history
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History, Ancient
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Greek World
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history of medicine.
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MEDICAL -- History.
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Medicine -- Religious aspects
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Human body
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Medical logic
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Medicine
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Medicine, Ancient
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Medicine, Egyptian
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Medicine, Greek and Roman
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Physicians
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Geneeskunde.
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Sociale aspecten.
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Ptolemaeën.
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Hellenisme.
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Egypt, Ancient |
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Egypt
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Egypt -- Alexandria
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Egypte.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012026425 |
| ISBN |
9789004235519 |
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9004235515 |
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9781283939720 |
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128393972X |
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