Medicine and Space: Body, Surroundings and Borders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 900421609X ISBN 13: 9789004216099

Casa editrice: Brill Academic Pub, 2011

Riassunto

The papers in this volume question how perceptions of space influenced understandings of the body and its functions, illness and treatment, and the surrounding natural and built environments in relation to health in the classical and medieval periods.

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L'autore:

Patricia A. Baker, Ph.D. (2001) in Classics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, is now a lecturer in Classics and Archaeology at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She has published widely on Roman medicine in particular the Roman army and the material culture of medicine.
Han Nijdam, Ph.D. (2008) in Humanities, Leiden University, is coordinator for Old Frisian and the Frisian Language Database at the Fryske Akademy (KNAW), Leeuwarden, Netherlands. He has published on various aspects of Old Frisian law, particularly on embodied honour and revenge.
Karine van 't Land is a historian and physician affiliated to the Department of History of the Radboud University Nijmegen. She is currently writing a Ph.D. dissertation on the theme of nutrition and identity in late medieval university medicine.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Brill Academic Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 900421609X
• ISBN 13: 9789004216099
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Redattore: Baker Patricia, Nijdam Han, T'land Katrine Van