Medical Traditions – serie
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21 produkter
Medical Traditions
Exploring the Field
Inbunden, 2026
1408 kr
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Medical traditions encapsulate the knowledge of life, health, nutrition, diseases and their treatment patiently assembled by populations over a long period of time in the past, carefully handed down through generations, and subsequently recorded in writing and preserved in books now scattered in …
Diels' Catalogue with Indices
Inbunden, 2020
2229 kr
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The medical literature of ancient Greece has been much studied during the 20th century, particularly from the 1970s on. In spite of this intense activity, the search for manuscripts still relies on the catalogue compiled in the early 1900s by a group of philologists led by the German historian of …
Corpus Hippocraticum
Inbunden, 2020
1465 kr
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The medical literature of ancient Greece has been much studied during the 20th century, particularly from the 1970s on. In spite of this intense activity, the search for manuscripts still relies on the catalogue compiled in the early 1900s by a group of philologists led by the German historian of …
Corpus Galenicum
Inbunden, 2020
1498 kr
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The medical literature of ancient Greece has been much studied during the 20th century, particularly from the 1970s on. In spite of this intense activity, the search for manuscripts still relies on the catalogue compiled in the early 1900s by a group of philologists led by the German historian of …
Ceteri Medici
Inbunden, 2020
1498 kr
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The medical literature of ancient Greece has been much studied during the 20th century, particularly from the 1970s on. In spite of this intense activity, the search for manuscripts still relies on the catalogue compiled in the early 1900s by a group of philologists led by the German historian of …
Manuscripts and their Texts
Inbunden, 2020
2791 kr
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Greek medical manuscripts have been catalogued differently over the centuries. Based on the inventory of their texts in Diels' lists, this tome offers the first standardized catalogue. When appropriate, manuscript location or shelfmark according to Diels have been corrected and updated to reflect …
Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece
The Medical Recipes of Gymnasios Lauriōtis in Context
Inbunden, 2020
1618 kr
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This book is a study of three iatrosofia (the notebooks of traditional healers) from the Ottoman and modern periods of Greece. The main text is a collection of the medical recipes of the monk Gymnasios Lauriōtis (b. 1858). Gymnasios had a working knowledge of over 2,000 plants and their use in …
Plants in 16th and 17th Century
Botany between Medicine and Science
Inbunden, 2023
1542 kr
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In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged. This volume follows intertwined strands in the study of plants, examining newly introduced species that captured physicians' curiosity, expanded …
Loss of Male Sexual Desire in Ancient Mesopotamia
›Nīš Libbi‹ Therapies
Av Gioele Zisa
Inbunden, 2021
2096 kr
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After more than fifty years since the last publication, the cuneiform texts relating to the treatment of the loss of male sexual desire and vigor in Mesopotamia are collected in this volume. The aim of the book is to present Mesopotamian medical tradition regarding the so-called nīš libbi …
Tome 1: Manuscripts. ›Codices‹, Texts, Science and Medicine
Inbunden, 2025
2415 kr
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This three-volume set of essays is dedicated to Alain Touwaide, known for his far-reaching investigations in fields such as ancient medicine, botany, pharmacy, texts and manuscripts, the classical tradition, translation, the history of science, ethnopharmacology, and plant therapies. The essays, …
Tome 2: Plants. Botany, Gardens, ›Materia medica‹, Ethnopharmacology
Inbunden, 2025
2231 kr
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This three-volume set of essays is dedicated to Alain Touwaide, known for his far-reaching investigations in fields such as ancient medicine, botany, pharmacy, texts and manuscripts, the classical tradition, translation, the history of science, ethnopharmacology, and plant therapies. The essays, …
Tome 3: Remedies. Pharmacy, Drugs, Archaeology, Tradition
Inbunden, 2025
2415 kr
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This three-volume set of essays is dedicated to Alain Touwaide, known for his far-reaching investigations in fields such as ancient medicine, botany, pharmacy, texts and manuscripts, the classical tradition, translation, the history of science, ethnopharmacology, and plant therapies. The essays, …
Rethinking Medical Humanities
Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences
Av Rinaldo F. Canalis, Massimo Ciavolella m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1702 kr
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Medical Humanities may be broadly conceptualized as a discipline wherein medicine and its specialties intersect with those of the humanities and social sciences. As such it is a hybrid area of study where the impact of disease and healing science on culture is assessed and expressed in the …
Andrea Cesalpino's ›De Plantis Libri XVI‹ (1583) and the Transformation of Medical Botany in the 16th Century
Edition, Translation, and Commentary on Book I
Av Quentin Hiernaux, Corentin Tresnie
Inbunden, 2023
2150 kr
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In 1583 the Italian botanist and physician Andrea Cesalpino (1524–1603) published De Plantis Libri XVI, made of 16 books (libri), considered to be the first treatise where botany is treated independently from medicine. In so doing, he broke with a long tradition inherited in Western science from …
Physiognomy at the Crossroad of Magic, Science, and the Arts
Av Massimo Ciavolella, Valeria Finucci m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1733 kr
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The essays examine how the study of facial features or expressions as indicative of character or ethnicity, has evolved from the crossroad of magic, religion and primitive medicine to present-day cultural concern for wellness and beauty. In this context, the discoveries of cranio-facial …
Medieval Diet and Medicine
›Occitan Health Advice for the Layperson‹
Inbunden, 2024
1853 kr
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This volume offers a new critical edition with facing English translation and a detailed study of the medieval manual of dietetics Occitan Health Advice dating from the 13th century and probably compiled in the milieu of Montpellier’s university. This Advice on health and well-being is a unique …
Loss of Male Sexual Desire in Ancient Mesopotamia
›Nīš Libbi‹ Therapies
Av Gioele Zisa
Häftad, 2023
385 kr
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After more than fifty years since the last publication, the cuneiform texts relating to the treatment of the loss of male sexual desire and vigor in Mesopotamia are collected in this volume. The aim of the book is to present Mesopotamian medical tradition regarding the so-called nīš libbi …
Ceroplastics – Wax Anatomy
An overview on the fascinating, uncanny world of the art of anatomical wax modelling
Inbunden, 2027
1796 kr
Kommande
This book will follow the history of wax modelling (or ceroplastics) with its changing fate through the centuries and artistic taste.Re-discovered in the 13th – 14th centuries in Florence with the cult of votive offerings, the art of wax modelling has an ancient origin. It reached its artistic peak …
Alchemy in Byzantium
Inbunden, 2026
1497 kr
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Byzantine alchemy has emerged as a vibrant area of academic inquiry in recent years, signaling a shift in scholarly attention within the broader field of the history of alchemy. Nevertheless, in mainstream historiography, the Byzantine tradition is still briefly, if at all, referred to and …
Plants in 16th and 17th Century
Botany between Medicine and Science
Häftad, 2025
284 kr
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In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged. This volume follows intertwined strands in the study of plants, examining newly introduced species that captured physicians' curiosity, expanded …
Greek Medical Manuscripts - Diels’ Catalogue
Concordances, Indexes, Addenda
Inbunden, 2028
1534 kr
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The medical literature of ancient Greece has been much studied during the 20th century, with a particular activity from the 1970s on. In spite of this intense activity, the search for Greek medical manuscripts still relies on the catalogues compiled in the early 20th century by a group of …
