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Galen: writings on health. Thrasybulus and Health (De sanitate …

WEBPreview . This impressive book is the third volume to appear in the Cambridge Galen Translations Series (general editor: Philip J. van der Eijk), after …

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The invention of medicine: a history from Homer to Hippocrates

WEBThe Invention of Medicine, longlisted for the 2021 Runciman Award, is a most welcome contribution to this ever-growing field by one of today’s most eminent …

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Health and Hedonism in Plato and Epicurus

WEBPreview. Arenson’s Health and Hedonism offers an arresting comparative study of Plato’s treatments of pleasure in the Republic (ch. 1) and the Philebus (chs. 2 …

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A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek …

WEBThumiger concludes with four main findings about the representation of mental life and mental health in Hippocratic medical texts: mental disturbance is visible; …

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Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire

WEBThe first (“The Identity of Physicians during the High Roman Empire”) traces the establishment of medicine in its Hellenized form in the Roman world, and specifically …

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Health in Antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

WEBIn the introduction, the editor usefully discusses the plurality of definitions given for health both in antiquity and the modern world, ranging from the absence of …

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Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean World

WEBIn short, this volume raises a number of important questions and constitutes a useful source of information on various aspects of medicine and health in the ancient …

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Hippocrates. Volume XI: Diseases of Women 1-2

WEBVolume XI: Diseases of Women 1-2. The Loeb classical library, 538 . The Loeb classical library, 538. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. 528 pages. …

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Galen’s Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation

WEBThe book builds on the author’s 2016 University of Exeter dissertation, What factors influence Galen’s development of a theory of black bile for his explanation of health and …

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Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: from Celsus to Paul of Aegina

WEBPreview [The Table of Contents is listed below.] Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine is volume 50 in Brill’s series ‘Studies in Ancient Medicine’. 1 It is a collection of …

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Julius Caesar’s Disease – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

WEBPreview. Illness fascinates. As Susan Sontag pointed out, physical illnesses often become ‘encumbered with the trappings of metaphor’ about individuals and about society. 1 …

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Galen on Food and Diet – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

WEBA survey of present day popular literature on diet and health, on the hotly claimed powers of various foods to prevent or cause cancer or provide protection …

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Hippocrates’ ‘On Airs, Waters, and Places’ and ‘The Hippocratic …

WEBThe first presumably aimed at the itinerant physician, deals with environmental influences on health as well as the effects of seasonal variations on the incidence of disease. It …

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Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Social and Cultural

WEBChristian Krötzl , Katariina Mustakallio, Jenni Kuuliala, Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Social and Cultural Approaches to Health, Weakness and Care. Farnham; …

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Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Fourteenth Volume, 2010: …

WEBThe five papers in the section Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome mostly derive from the Spring 2008 Conference organized by Miriam Griffin as Visiting Professor and holder of …

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Hippocrates’ Woman. Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece

WEBReading the Female Body in Ancient Greece – Bryn Mawr Classical Review. BMCR 2000.07.20. Hippocrates’ Woman. Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece. …

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Roman Medicine – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

WEBUnhappily the book has gone out of print. 3. It has become fashionable in some quarters to deny that the Romans did much about “public health” in their cities, in …

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Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice. Ancient Cultures

WEBBMCR 2011.08.37 Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice. Ancient Cultures

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Streets and Streams: Health Conditions and City Planning in the …

WEB[The Table of Contents is listed below.] Roman toilets, effluvia, streets and sewers are topics for several important monographs and edited volumes that have appeared in the …

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Philosophical Themes in Galen. BICS supplement, 114

WEBThis supplement of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies collects eleven papers on philosophical issues in the work of Galen of Pergamum, some given at …

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Being alone in antiquity: Greco-Roman ideas and experiences of

WEBLoneliness is today considered a problematic emotion, one that is likely to increase the risk of premature mortality and other adverse health outcomes. Given the …

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The Natural History of Pompeii – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

WEBCh. 18, “Health and Nutrition at Herculaneum. An examination of human skeletal remains” by the late Sara Bisel is, appropriately, the final chapter. The discovery …

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