Archaeology of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World

Informationen zum Autor Patricia A. Baker is Head of Classical and Archaeological Studies at the University of Kent. She was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2006. She is an active field archaeologist and has participated in excavations in the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy. She is currently working on a project in Monte San Martino ai Campo, Trentino, Italy, a multi-period site dating from the Iron Ages to the Middle Ages. She is author of Medical Care for the Roman Army on the Rhine, Danube and British Frontiers in the First, Second and Early Third Centuries AD and editor of Medicine and Space: Body, Buildings and Borders in the Classical and Medieval Traditions; Practitioners, Practices and Patients: New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology; and TRAC 98: The Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference Proceedings 1998. Klappentext This book teaches students and scholars of Greco-Roman medical history how to use and critically assess archaeological materials. Zusammenfassung This book teaches students and scholars of Greco-Roman medical history how to use and critically assess archaeological materials. It explains how to ask questions of an archaeological nature! how to access different types of archaeological materials! and how to overcome problems the researcher might face. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Background to archaeological theories and methods; 3. Text as material culture; 4. Images; 5. Small finds; 6. Spaces of healing; 7. Scientific archaeology: skeletal and medical remains; 8. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Baker, Patricia A. Baker, Patricia A. (University of Kent Baker, Baker Patricia A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2013
• EAN: 9780521194327
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19432-7
• No. of pages: 203
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ancient Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of Medicine, History of Science, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Mediterranean countries, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology