Ancient medicine in its socio-cultural context. / Papers read at the congress held at Leiden University, 13-15 April 1992. : Volume 1 / / edited by Ph. J. van der Eijk, H. F. J. Horstmanshoff, P. H. Schrijvers.

• Superior document: Clio Medica ; 27
• TeilnehmendeR: Eijk, Ph. J. van der; Horstmanshoff, H. F. J.,; Schrijvers, P. H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1995]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Clio Medica ; 27.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Editorial preface /; List of participants /; References and abbreviations /; Social, institutional and geographical aspects of medical practice /; The medical meeting place /; The social status of physicians in the Graeco-Roman world /; L'introduction de la médecine grecque à Rome: une dissension politique et idéologique /; Greek doctors and Roman patients: a medical anthropological approach /; Les démonstrations médicales à Rome au temps de Galien /; Galen and his patients /; Aromatarii, pharmacopolae, thurarii et ceteri Zur Sozialgeschichte Roms /; Die sogenannten Berufsnamen antiker Ärzte /; Les médecins des Séleucides /; Medical care in late antiquity /; Der Arzt in der römischen Armee der frühen und hohen Kaiserzeit /; The composition of Roman medical instrumentaria as an indicator of medical practice: a provisional assessment /; Gynecology in Pompeii /; L'aire géographique des médecins hippocratiques /; Women, children and sexuality /; Comment rendre à sa véritable nature le petit monstre humain? /; The Greek medical texts and the sexual ethos of ancient Athens /; Monuments, midwives and gynecology /; Paidopoíïa: Metaphors for conception, abortion, and gestation in the Hippocratic Corpus /; Ein archäologisches Problem: Gräber römischer Chirurginnen /
• ISBN: 9004418377
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Ph. J. van der Eijk, H. F. J. Horstmanshoff, P. H. Schrijvers.

This collection of papers – some of which written by the world’s leading specialists in the area of ancient medicine – aims at promoting an integrated approach to medical theory and practice in classical antiquity. Questions of health and disease are considered in their relation to the social, intellectual, moral and religious dimensions of the ancient world. The papers focus on the socio-cultural setting of the experience of pain and illness, the different reactions they provoked and the importance that was attached to this experience in literature, religion and philosophy. The first volume offers articles (from an archaeological, historical and philological point of view) dealing with social, institutional and geographical aspects of medical practice. It also has a special section on medical views on women, children and sexuality, and on female medical activity. The second volume focuses on the ways in which religious and magical beliefs influenced the experience of, and the attitude towards, illness and medical practice. It also deals with the relations of medicine with philosophy, and the other sciences and with the variety of linguistic and textual forms in which medical knowledge was expressed and communicated. Contributors to the first volume are Lawrence J. Bliquez, Simon Byl, Armelle Debru, Nancy Demand, Danielle Gourevitch, Ann Ellis Hanson, H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, Ralph Jackson, Eva C. Keuls, Jukka Korpela, Ernst Künzl, Gabriele Marasco, Attilio Mastrocinque, Karin Nijhuis, Vivian Nutton, H.W. Pleket, Heikki Solin, Peter Van Minnen, and Juliane C. Wilmanns.