Medicine and space : : body, surroundings and borders in antiquity and the Middle Ages / / edited by Patricia A. Baker, Han Nijdam, Karine van 't Land.

• Superior document: Visualising the Middle Ages, v. 4
• Author: Anglo-Dutch Wellcome Symposium
• TeilnehmendeR: Baker, Patricia Anne.; Nijdam, Han.; Land, Karine van 't.; Anglo-Dutch Wellcome Symposium
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Visualising the Middle Ages ; v. 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283366177; 9786613366177; 9004226508
• ISSN: 1874-0448
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Patricia A. Baker, Han Nijdam, Karine van 't Land.

This volume contributes to medical history in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by significantly widening our understandings of health and treatment through the theme of space . The fundamental question about how space was conceived by different groups of people in these periods has been used to demonstrate the multi-variant understandings of the body and its functions, illness and treatment, and the surrounding natural and built environments in relation to health. The subject is approached from a variety of source materials: medical, philosophical and religious literature, archaeological remains and artistic reproductions. By taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject the volume offers new interpretations and methodologies to medical history in the periods in question. Contributors are Helen King, Michael McVaugh, Maithe Hulskamp, Glenda McDonald, Roberto Lo Presti, Fabiola van Dam, Catrien Santing, Ralph Rosen, and Irina Metzler.