Diseases in the Ancient Greek World (Paperback)

What were the illnesses that plagued men, women, and children of the ancient world? Traditional approaches to this subject have often relied exclusively on literary evidence, but ancient texts are extraordinarily difficult to interpret. Different methodologies, archaic defitions of diseases, and technical terms whose meanings have shifted over time frustrate discovery of the actual diseases hidden behind textual sources. To uncover this "nosological reality," Mirko D. Grmek has fashioned a vast army of techniques into a new, multidisciplinary approach that combines philology, paleopathology, paleodemography, and iconography with recent developments in genetics, immunology, epidemiology, and clinical medicine. Also new is Grmek's concept of pathocoenosis (the ensemble of pathological states present in a given population) and his method of examining such ancient diseases as leprocy, tuberculosis, and syphilis in relation to one another, and to all other pathological conditions, rather than in isolation.

General

Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1991
First published:	1998
Authors:	Mirko D. Grmek
Translators:	Mireille Muellner • Leonard Muellner
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	472
ISBN-13:	978-0-8018-4225-2
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology Promotions
LSN:	0-8018-4225-5
Barcode:	9780801842252

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