This innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic
exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies
and machines in classical antiquity. It examines the conception of
the body and bodily processes in mechanical terms in ancient
medical writings, and looks into how artificial bodies and automata
were equally configured in human terms; it also investigates how
this knowledge applied to the treatment of the disabled and the
diseased in the ancient world. The volume examines the pre-history
of what develops, at a later stage, and more specifically during
the early modern period, into the full science of iatromechanics in
the context of which the human body was treated as a machine and
medical treatments were devised accordingly. The volume facilitates
future dialogue between scholars working on different areas, from
classics, history and archaeology to history of science, philosophy
and technology.
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