Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE): A Sourcebook 1st Edition by Kristi Upson-Saia 9780520971325 0520971329

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• ISBN 10: 0520971329
• ISBN 13: 9780520971325
• Author: Kristi Upson-Saia

This sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome. Covering a wide array of fascinating topics—such as ancient diagnostic practices using the pulse and urine, gynecological theories of women’s illness, treatments involving drugs and surgery, the training and work of physicians, the experiences of patients, and various sites where healing took place—this volume will engage readers interested in the rich history of health and healthcare.

Table contents:

1. Approaching the History of Medicine
2. Greek and Roman Medicine: A Chronological Overview
3. Living Conditions in the Ancient Mediterranean
4. The Cosmos and the Body as a (Micro)cosm
Text 1. Plato, Timaeus selections (27c–34b, 42d–44c)
Text 2. Hippocratic Corpus, Airs, Waters, Places
5. The Art and Science of Medicine
Text 3. Hippocratic Corpus, On the Art of Medicine
Text 4. Celsus, On Medicine selection (Preface 1–57)
6. Theories of Health and Illness
Text 5. Hippocratic Corpus, On the Nature of Humans selection (1–9)
7. Diagnosis
Text 6. Rufus of Ephesus, On the Importance of Questioning the Sick Person
Text 7. Pliny, Natural History selection (28.68–69)
8. Case Histories
Text 8. Hippocratic Corpus, On Epidemics selections (cases from Books 1, 2, 4, and 5)
9. Common Complaints
Women’s Illnesses
Text 9. Hippocratic Corpus, Diseases of Women selections (1.1–2, 4–7)
Text 10. Metrodora, On the Conditions of the Womb selection (1–19)
Digestive and Intestinal Ailments
Text 11. Caelius Aurelianus, Chronic Conditions selections (4.3, 4.8)
Wounds and Fractures
Text 12. Celsus, On Medicine selection (5.26)
Bites and Stings
Text 13. Nicander, On Dangerous Creatures selections (1–7, 98–114, 636–655, 921–933)
Eye Conditions
Text 14. Galen, On the Affected Parts selection (4.2)
Text 15. Paul of Aegina, Medical Compendium selection (3.22)
Fevers
Text 16. Celsus, On Medicine selection (3.3–4)
Mental and Emotional Afflictions
Text 17. Hippocratic Corpus, On the Sacred Illness
Epidemics
Text 18. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War selection (2.47–54)
Text 19. Procopius, History of the Wars selection (2.22–23)
10. Common Treatments and Therapeutics
Regimen
Text 20. Hippocratic Corpus, Regimen in Health selection (1–9)
Text 21. Celsus, On Medicine selection (2.10–11)
Text 22. Paul of Aegina, Medical Compendium selection (1.53–56)
Pharmacology and Drug Therapies
Text 23. Theophrastus, Inquiry on Plants selection (9.8)
Text 24. Scribonius Largus, Recipes selection (Preface 1–14)
Text 25. Cato, On Agriculture selection (156–157)
Text 26. Dioscorides, Medical Material selection (4.64)
Text 27. Oribasius, Medical Compilations selection (1.20)
Text 28. Pliny, Natural History selections (27.14–20, 28.35–38)
Surgery
Text 29. Celsus, On Medicine selections (7.proem, 7.5, 7.7, and 7.16)
Incubation and Dream Therapies
Text 30. Inscriptions from Epidaurus, selections (from Stelai A and B)
Text 31. Hippocratic Corpus, On Regimen selections (4.86, 4.90)
Text 32. Artemidorus, Interpretation of Dreams selections (4.22, 5.9, 5.26, 5.59, 5.61, 5.66, 5.71–72, 5.79, 5.87, 5.89, 5.94)
Therapies of Touch, Word, and Sound
11. Physicians
Text 33. Galen, On Examinations by Which the Best Physicians Are Recognized selections (1–3, 5, 9)
Text 34. Galen, On Anatomical Procedures selections (1.1–3, 3.1–2)
Text 35. Soranus, Women’s Health selection (1.2–3)
Text 36. Inscriptions related to physicians
12. Patients
Text 37. Fronto, Letters (selections of letters to Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius)
Text 38. Seneca, Letters (Letters 54, 104.1–3, 6)
Text 39. Inscriptions related to patients
13. Ethics and Professional Conduct
Text 40. Hippocratic Oath
Text 41. Oath of Asaph and Yoḥanan
Text 42. Hippocratic Corpus, Decorum selections (5, 7–18)
14. Life Stages
Text 43. Celsus, On Medicine selection (2.1)
Pregnancy and Obstetric Care
Text 44. Soranus, Women’s Health selections (1.10–13, 1.16, 1.22, 2.1)
Text 45. Aëtius of Amida, Four-Volume Compendium selections (16.10–12, 16.22–25)
Childhood Ailments and Pediatric Care
Text 46. Soranus, Women’s Health selection (2.8)
Text 47. Galen, On Hygiene selections (1.7, 1.9, 1.12)
Geriatric Ailments and End of Life
Text 48. Galen, On Hygiene selection (5.3–4)
15. Healing Places and Spaces

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