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Medicine and society in Ptolemaic Egypt / by Philippa Lang.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 41.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004235519
  • 9004235515
  • 9781283939720
  • 128393972X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medicine and society in Ptolemaic Egypt.DDC classification:
  • 610.938 23
LOC classification:
  • R137
NLM classification:
  • WZ 51
Other classification:
  • 44.01
Online resources:
Contents:
Greeks and Egyptians -- Medicine and the gods -- Theoretical perspectives -- Responses to illness -- Identifying medical practitioners -- Medicine in Alexandria.
Summary: Current questions over whether Hellenistic Egypt should be understood in terms of colonialism and imperialism, multicultural separatism, or integration and syncretism have never been closely studied in the context of healing. Yet illness affects and is affected by nutrition, disease and reproduction within larger questions of demography, agriculture and environment. It is crucial to every socio-economic group, all ages, and both sexes; perceptions and responses to illness are ubiquitous in all kinds of evidence, both Greek and Egyptian and from archaeology to literature. Examing all forms of healing within the specific socioeconomic and environmental constraints of the Ptolemies' Egypt, this book explores how linguistic, cultural and ethnic affiliations and interactions were expressed in the medical domain.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Greeks and Egyptians -- Medicine and the gods -- Theoretical perspectives -- Responses to illness -- Identifying medical practitioners -- Medicine in Alexandria.

Current questions over whether Hellenistic Egypt should be understood in terms of colonialism and imperialism, multicultural separatism, or integration and syncretism have never been closely studied in the context of healing. Yet illness affects and is affected by nutrition, disease and reproduction within larger questions of demography, agriculture and environment. It is crucial to every socio-economic group, all ages, and both sexes; perceptions and responses to illness are ubiquitous in all kinds of evidence, both Greek and Egyptian and from archaeology to literature. Examing all forms of healing within the specific socioeconomic and environmental constraints of the Ptolemies' Egypt, this book explores how linguistic, cultural and ethnic affiliations and interactions were expressed in the medical domain.

Online resource; title from electronic title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed July 13, 2018).

English.

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