Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations

In Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations an international group of scholars aims to give a fresh start to the study of the wide range of practices that people in Antiquity actually engaged in when they were faced with ill health.

About the author

W. V. Harris (D.Phil. Oxford) is Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the editor of Mental Disorders in the Classical World (Brill, 2013); his new book, Roman Power, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2016.

Contributors are Isabella Andorlini, Rebecca Flemming, Danielle Gourevitch, W. V. Harris, Catherine Hezser, Ido Israelowich, Julie Laskaris, David Leith, Vivian Nutton, Olympia Panagiotidou, Chiara Thumiger, Laurence Totelin and Caroline Wazer.

Product details

• Assisted by: William V Harris (Editor), William V. Harris (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.2016
• EAN: 9789004325586
• ISBN: 978-90-04-32558-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 24 mm x 241 mm x 73 mm
• Weight: 609 g
• Series: Columbia Studies in the Classi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General