Articles

This work brings together Philip van der Eijk's previously published essays on the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout... 
Medicine | Nature | Medicine, Greek and Roman | Soul | Medicine, Ancient | Philosophy | Philosophy, Ancient

"A magisterial overview of Babylonian medicine, extremely well written. Geller is eminently successful in opening up the subject to non-experts and stimulating... 
Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian | Methodology | Magic, Assyro-Babylonian | Philosophy | Literary Criticism | Ancient & Classical | Electronic books | local

This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider... 
Medicine | History | Medical innovations | Medicine, Ancient | Other branches of medicine | Dreams | History of Medicine | Classical Studies | Modern History 1750-1945 | Social & Cultural History | Late Antiquity & Byzantium | Greece | Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric | Medicine, Greek and Roman | Dreams in literature

History, Ancient | Health Manpower | Medicine, Greek and Roman | Delivery of Health Care | Religion and Medicine | Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice | History

Available for the first time in paperback, this first large-scale, sole-authored history of ancient medicine for almost 100 years uses both archaeological and... 
History | Medicine, Ancient | Physicians | History of Medicine | Classical Studies | Physicians - History

Greece | Greci in Occidente. History | History, Ancient | Neurology | history | Greek World

The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the... 
History | Medicine, Ancient | Physicians | History of Medicine | History of Science & Technology | Greek History & Culture | Late Antiquity & Byzantium | Classical Studies | Medical History | Roman History & Culture

The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of... 
Symptoms | Greece | Civilization | Medicine, Greek and Roman | Human body

Galen of Pergamum (AD 129–c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for more than... 
Galen

Providing a comprehensive study of the Ancient Babylonian healing goddess, this book employs a range of Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources. The resulting volume... 
Gula (Assyro-Babylonian deity) | Healing | Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian | Magic, Assyro-Babylonian | Healing gods

In this fascinating and revealing A-to-Z, John G. Younger examines the sexual practices, expressions and attitudes of the Greeks and Romans, from Catullus and... 
Sex customs | History | Civilization, Ancient | Sociology, Social Studies | Classical Studies | Cultural Sexuality | Sex customs - History - To 1500

This volume rethinks the role of the Sino-Japanese medical classics during the early modern period in light of antiquarianism, languages, and medical... 
History, Ancient | History, Early Modern 1451-1600 | Medicine, East Asian Traditional | History, 18th Century | History | Medicine, Oriental | Medicine, Chinese | Traditional medicine | Japan | China | 18th century

In this book, Miranda Brown investigates the myths that acupuncturists and herbalists have told about the birth of the healing arts. Moving from the Han (206... 
History, Ancient | Medicine in Literature | Medicine, Chinese Traditional | Physicians | History, Medieval | Medicine, Chinese | History | Biography | Medicine in literature

Medicine, Greek and Roman

The rich civilizations of ancient China and Greece built sciences of comparable sophistication-each based on different foundations of concept, method, and... 
Science | Medicine, Greek and Roman | Medicine, Chinese | History | Science, Ancient | Greece | History of Science & Technology | China | Science and civilization

History of Medicine | History, Ancient | Roman World | Physicians | Galen

The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine... 
Omens | Religion | Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, 490 ca. 565. De ostentis | Calendar, Greek | Astronomy, Greek | Etruscans