Dissection In Classical Antiquity

Author : Claire Bubb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100915947X
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dissection in Classical Antiquity written by Claire Bubb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive study of the social and medical history of dissection in classical antiquity and the parallel development of anatomical texts.

Author : Claire Bubb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009179853
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dissection in Classical Antiquity written by Claire Bubb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissection is a practice with a long history stretching back to antiquity and has played a crucial role in the development of anatomical knowledge. This absorbing book takes the story back to classical antiquity, employing a wide range of textual and material evidence. Claire Bubb reveals how dissection was practised from the Hippocratic authors of the fifth century BC through Aristotle and the Hellenistic doctors Herophilus and Erasistratus to Galen in the second century AD. She focuses on its material concerns and social contexts, from the anatomical subjects (animal or human) and how they were acquired, to the motivations and audiences of dissection, to its place in the web of social contexts that informed its reception, including butchery, sacrifice, and spectacle. The book concludes with a thorough examination of the relationship of dissection to the development of anatomical literature into Late Antiquity.

Author : Maria Gerolemou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009092790
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity written by Maria Gerolemou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity. It examines the conception of the body and bodily processes in mechanical terms in ancient medical writings, and looks into how artificial bodies and automata were equally configured in human terms; it also investigates how this knowledge applied to the treatment of the disabled and the diseased in the ancient world. The volume examines the pre-history of what develops, at a later stage, and more specifically during the early modern period, into the full science of iatromechanics in the context of which the human body was treated as a machine and medical treatments were devised accordingly. The volume facilitates future dialogue between scholars working on different areas, from classics, history and archaeology to history of science, philosophy and technology.

Author : Vivian Nutton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415520940
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Medicine written by Vivian Nutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining archaeological evidence with the witness of written texts, Vivian Nutton offers a detailed history of medicine & medical knowledge in the ancient world.

Author : Galen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108009441
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Galen on Anatomical Procedures written by Galen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Galen's Anatomical Procedures (c. AD 200) offers parts of book 9 and books 10-15.

Author : James I. Porter
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472087792
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructions of the Classical Body written by James I. Porter and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished international scholars examine the neglected issue of the body and its status in classical antiquity

Author : Peter N. Singer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190913681
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Galen written by Peter N. Singer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216 CE), arguably the most important medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world. It contains essays by thirty leading experts on Galen's life and background, his medical theories, his therapeutic and clinical practices, and his philosophical contributions in the areas of logic, epistemology, causation, scientific method, and ethics. The authors also discuss the most important pathways of the transmission of his texts and his intellectual legacy, from late antiquity to early modern times and from western Europe to Tibet and China.

Author : G. E. R. Lloyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521314978
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Morality in Greco-Roman Antiquity written by G. E. R. Lloyd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-03-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inaugural lecture considers three main aspects of the relationship between science and morality in Greco-Roman antiquity: first some of the ancient debates on the morality of particular scientific research programmes, especially in connection with the practice of human and animal dissection and vivisection; secondly ancient attempts to secure the autonomy and objectivity of natural scientific inquiry; and thirdly the continuing influence - in certain areas of ancient science - of values, including moral and political values, and of the assumption of the privileged position occupied by human beings in the animal kingdom and the cosmos.

Author : Anna M. Elsner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009300083
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Medicine written by Anna M. Elsner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of health and illness, death and dying, the normal and the pathological have always been an integral part of literary texts. This volume considers how the two dynamic fields of medicine and literature have crossed over, and how they have developed alongside one another. It asks how medicine, as both science and practice, shapes the representation of illness and transforms literary form. It considers how literary texts across genres and languages of disease have put forward specific conceptions of medicine and impacted its practice. Taking into account the global, multilingual and multicultural contexts, this volume systematically outlines and addresses this double-sidedness of the literature-medicine connection. Literature and Medicine covers a broad spectrum of conceptual, thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches that provide a solid foundation for understanding a vibrant interdisciplinary field.

Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135457395
Total Pages : 1354 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient World written by Frank N. Magill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 250 entries, each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains examines the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. Much more than a 'Who's Who', each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements, and conclude with a fully annotated bibliography. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. Any student in the field will want to have one of these as a handy reference companion.