Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE)
Author: Kristi Upson-Saia
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-08-08
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 0520299728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome. It includes a wide-ranging collection of textual sources - many hard to access, and some translated into English for the first time - as well as artistic, material, and scientific evidence. Introductory chapters and accompanying commentary provide substantial context, making the sourcebook accessible to readers at all levels. Readers will come away with a broad sense of the illnesses people in ancient Greece and Rome experienced, the range of healers from whom they sought help, and the various practices they employed to be healthy"--