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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Editorial preface / Ph.J. van der Eijk, H.F.J. Horstmanshoff and P.H. Schrijvers -- List of participants / Ph.J. van der Eijk, H.F.J. Horstmanshoff and P.H. Schrijvers -- References and abbreviations / Ph.J. van der Eijk, H.F.J. Horstmanshoff and P.H. Schrijvers -- Social, institutional and geographical aspects of medical practice / Ph.J. van der Eijk, H.F.J. Horstmanshoff and P.H. Schrijvers -- The medical meeting place / Vivian Nutton -- The social status of physicians in the Graeco-Roman world / H. W. Pleket -- L'introduction de la médecine grecque à Rome: une dissension politique et idéologique / Gabriele Marasco -- Greek doctors and Roman patients: a medical anthropological approach / Karin Nijhuis -- Les démonstrations médicales à Rome au temps de Galien / Armelle Debru -- Galen and his patients / H.F.J. Horstmanshoff -- Aromatarii, pharmacopolae, thurarii et ceteri Zur Sozialgeschichte Roms / Jukka Korpela -- Die sogenannten Berufsnamen antiker Ärzte / Heikki Solin -- Les médecins des Séleucides / Attilio Mastrocinque -- Medical care in late antiquity / Peter Van Minnen -- Der Arzt in der römischen Armee der frühen und hohen Kaiserzeit / Juliane C. Wilmanns -- The composition of Roman medical instrumentaria as an indicator of medical practice: a provisional assessment / Ralph Jackson -- Gynecology in Pompeii / Lawrence J. Bliquez -- L'aire géographique des médecins hippocratiques / Simon Byl -- Women, children and sexuality / Ph.J. van der Eijk, H.F.J. Horstmanshoff and P.H. Schrijvers -- Comment rendre à sa véritable nature le petit monstre humain? / Danielle Gourevitch -- The Greek medical texts and the sexual ethos of ancient Athens / Eva C. Keuls -- Monuments, midwives and gynecology / Nancy Demand -- Paidopoíïa: Metaphors for conception, abortion, and gestation in the Hippocratic Corpus / Ann Ellis Hanson -- Ein archäologisches Problem: Gräber römischer Chirurginnen / Ernst Künzl.