Medicine and Space

Patricia A. Baker, Ph.D. (2001) in Classics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, is now a lecturer in Classics and Archaeology at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She has published widely on Roman medicine in particular the Roman army and the material culture of medicine.Han Nijdam, Ph.D. (2008) in Humanities, Leiden University, is coordinator for Old Frisian and the Frisian Language Database at the Fryske Akademy (KNAW), Leeuwarden, Netherlands. He has published on various aspects of Old Frisian law, particularly on embodied honour and revenge.Karine van 't Land is a historian and physician affiliated to the Department of History of the Radboud University Nijmegen. She is currently writing a Ph.D. dissertation on the theme of nutrition and identity in late medieval university medicine.

"...this volume reveals (if only in snapshots) the hidden dimensions of the body and the deeper structures that inform cultural discourses on illness and healing [...] This volume is of great value to those interested in the pre-modern body, from its interior spaces to the natural and man-made environments with which it was in constant communication. [...] Medicine and Space: Body, Surroundings, and Borders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages is a meaningful contribution to the history of medicine and the body, and will be useful to students and researchers alike.Brenda S. Gardenour Walter, Medieval Encounters 19 (2013), pp. 238-242"...De artikelen en prachtige afbeeldingen in Medicine and space sluiten naadloos op deze inzichten aan. [...] Vooral de inleiding van Patricia Baker en Han Nijdam biedt een zeer helder overzicht van deze verschillende invalshoeken. [...] Medicine and space biedt nu alvast een waardevolle ingang tot allerlei vragen naar het lichaam, ruimte en omgeving..."Claire Weeda, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 126 (2013), pp. 410-411

• Preface ... viiAcknowledgements ... ixList of Illustrations ... xiList of Contributors ... xixFigures and Plates ... following xxIntroduction: Conceptualizing Body, Space and Borders ... 1Patricia Baker and Han NijdamPART ONE: SPACES OF ANATOMYFistulas, the Knee, and the ‘Three-dimensional’ BodyMichael McVaugh ... 23Inside and Outside, Cavities and Containers: the Organs of Generation in Seventeenth-century English MedicineHelen King ... 37PART TWO: THE BODY AND SPACEThe ‘locus afffectus’ in Ancient Medical Theories of DiseaseGlenda Camille McDonald ... 63Internal, Yet Extrinsic: Conceptions of Bodily Space and their Relation to Causality in Late Medieval University MedicineKarine van ’t Land ... 85Permeable Boundaries: Bodies, Bathing and Fluxes: 1135–1333Fabiola I.W.M. van Dam ... 117PART THREE: SURROUNDINGSSpace and the Body: Uses of Astronomy in Hippocratic MedicineMaithe A.A. Hulskamp ... 149Shaping the Diffference: The Medical Inquiry into the Nature of Places and the Early Birth of Anthropology in the Hippocratic Treatise Airs Waters PlacesRoberto Lo Presti ... 169Death and the City: The Human Corpse as an Embodiment of Public Wellbeing in Counter-Reformation RomeCatrien Santing ... 197PART FOUR: HOSPITALS AND ARCHITECTURESpaces of Sickness in Greco-Roman MedicineRalph M. Rosen ... 227Medieval Islamic Hospitals: Structural Design and Social PerceptionsPatricia Baker ... 245Liminality and Disability: Spatial and Conceptual Aspects of Physical Impairment in Medieval EuropeIrina Metzler ... 273Bibliography ... 297Index ... 309