Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE)

Download or read book Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE) written by Kristi Upson-Saia and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--