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Health in antiquity / edited by Helen King. - London : Routledge, 2005. - xxii, 292 p. ; ill. ; 2.3cm.

Includes bibliography and index.

Disease and the prehistory of the Aegean / Robert Arnott -- Health and disease in Greece: past, present and future / Charlotte Roberts ... [et al.] -- Health in Hellenistic and Roman times: the case studies of Paphos, Cyprus and Corinth, Greece / Sherry C. Fox -- Health and the life course at Herculaneum and Pompeii / Ray Laurence -- Holding on to health?: bone surgery and instrumentation in the Roman Empire / Ralph Jackson -- 'Without you no one is happy': the cult of health in ancient Greece / Emma Stafford -- Hygieia at dinner and at the symposium / John Wilkins -- Women's health and recovery in the Hippocratic corpus / Helen King -- Drama and healing: ancient and modern / Karelisa Hartigan -- 'Curing' disability / Nicholas Vlahogiannis -- The salubriousness of the Roman city / Neville Morley -- Buildings for health: then and now / Peter Barefoot -- The health of the spiritual athlete / Gillian Clark -- 'Carrying on the work of the earlier firm': doctors, medicine and Christianity in the Thaumata of Sophronius of Jerusalem / Dominic Montserrat.

ISBN: 0415220653

LCCN: 2004017046

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Diseases and history.

LC Class. No.: R138 / .H43 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 616

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WZ 51 / H434 2005