The Treatment Of War Wounds In Graeco Roman Antiquity

Author : Christine Salazar
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004377484
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treatment of War Wounds in Graeco-Roman Antiquity written by Christine Salazar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this investigation of the treatment of battle trauma in antiquity, 'treatment' is used in a double sense, both as actual medical treatment and literary 'treatment' in non-medical sources. Part I deals with the practical, medical aspects of the topic: the types of wounds likely to result from a battle, their surgical and pharmacological treatment, the question of medical services in ancient armies, medical terminology and the availability of medical knowledge. Part II discusses the use of scenes of wounding and wound treatment in literature, and Part III is a survey of the archaeological evidence. This is the first monograph to examine the topic in all its different aspects; it should be of interest to classicists, medical historians and military historians.

Author : Tamara Neal
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039108794
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wounded Hero written by Tamara Neal and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an investigation of non-fatal injury and bloodspill in Homer's Iliad and demonstrates the crucial significance of these motifs in the epic. They are shown to be fundamental to defining heroic status and a powerful means for developing the narrative and thematic structures of the poem. The study offers a nuanced definition of the nature of mortality and immortality and shows how the motifs of injury and bloodspill explicate the plot of the poem and its ethical values. This work is the first to examine these motifs in a systematic and comprehensive investigation. Focusing exclusively on the Iliad, the book sheds new light on ideals of heroic conduct.

Author : William V. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004326049
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations written by William V. Harris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations an international group of scholars aims to give a fresh start to the study of the wide range of practices that people in Antiquity actually engaged in when they were faced with ill health.

Author : Benjamin Isaac
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107135893
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World written by Benjamin Isaac and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the Graeco-Roman world suffered from major power conflicts, imperial ambition, and ethnic, religious and racist strife.

Author : Patricia A. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521194326
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World written by Patricia A. Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book teaches students and scholars of Greco-Roman medical history how to use and critically assess archaeological materials. Ancient medicine is a subject dominated by textual sources, yet there is a wealth of archaeological remains that can be used to broaden our understanding of medicine in the past. In order to use the information properly, this book explains how to ask questions of an archaeological nature, how to access different types of archaeological materials, and how to overcome problems the researcher might face. It also acts as an introduction to the archaeology of medicine for archaeologists interested in this aspect of their subject. Although the focus is on the Greco-Roman period, the methods and theories explained within the text can be applied to other periods in history. The areas covered include text as material culture, images, artifacts, spaces of medicine, and science and archaeology.

Author : Christian Laes
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004251251
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disabilities in Roman Antiquity written by Christian Laes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic a capite ad calcem, from head to toe. Chapters deal with mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorders, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteology and visual representations of disparate bodies. The authors fully engage with literary, papyrological, and epigraphical sources, while iconography and osteo-archaeology are taken into account. Also the late ancient evidence is taken into account. Refraining from a radical constructionist standpoint, the contributors acknowledge the possibility of discovering significant differences in the way impairment was culturally viewed or assessed.

Author : Richard A. Gabriel
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597978485
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man and Wound in the Ancient World written by Richard A. Gabriel and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the fascinating role of medicine in ancient military cultures; Shows how the ancients understood the body, patched up their warriors, and sent them back into battle; Reveals medical secrets lost during the Dark Ages; Explores how ancient civilizations' technologies have influenced modern medical practices

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004677461
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it so difficult to talk about pain? As we do today, the Greeks and Romans struggled to communicate their pain: this required a rich and subtle vocabulary which had to be developed over time. Pain Narratives traces the development of this language in literary, philosophical, and medical texts from across antiquity: poets, physicians, and philosophers contributed to an ever-growing lexicon to articulate their own and others’ feelings. The essays within this volume uncover the expanding Greco-Roman vocabulary of pain, analyse the medical discussions on pain symptoms, and explore the religious reinterpretations of pain concepts in late antiquity.

Author : Michael D. Caldwell
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323754953
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wound Management, An Issue of Surgical Clinics, E-Book written by Michael D. Caldwell and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Surgical Clinics of North America focuses on Wound Management and is edited by Drs. Michael D. Caldwell and Michael J. Harl. Articles will include: Complex wounds calciphylaxis and burns; What makes wounds chronic; Clinical management of difficult and slow-healing wounds; The effect of comorbidities on wound healing; Foot surgery for chronic non-healing wounds; The role of biofilms in wound healing; Plastic surgery techniques for wound coverage; Biologic and synthetic skin substitutes and “smart? wound dressings/coverings; Bacteria and wound healing; Use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an adjunct to wound healing; The history of wound healing; and more!

Author : Maria Gerolemou
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837644934
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body Technologies in the Greco-Roman World written by Maria Gerolemou and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers that introduces the notion of the technosoma (techno body) into discussions on the representations of the body in classical antiquity. By applying the category of the technosoma to the ‘natural’ body, this volume explicitly narrows down the discussion of the technical and the natural to the physiological body. In doing so, the present collection focuses on body technologies in the specific form of beautification and body enhancement techniques, as well as medical and surgical treatments. The volume elucidates two main points. Firstly, ancient techno bodies show that the categories of gender and sexuality are at the core of the intersection of the natural and the technical, and intersect with notions of race, age, speciesism, class and education, and dis/ability. Secondly, the collection argues that new body technologies have in fact a very ancient history that can help to address the challenges of contemporary technological innovation. To this end, the volume showcases the intersection of ‘natural’ bodies with technology, gender, sexuality and reproduction. On the one hand, techno bodies tend to align with normative ideas about gender, and sexuality. On the other hand, body modification and/or enhancement techniques work hand in hand with economic and political power and knowledge, thus they often produce techno bodies that are shaped according to individual needs, i.e. according to a certain lifestyle. Consequently, techno bodies threaten to alter traditional ideas of masculinity, femininity, male and female sexuality and beauty.