Medicine and space : body, surroundings and borders in antiquity and the Middle Ages / edited by Patricia A. Baker, Han Nijdam, Karine van 't Land.

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Anglo-Dutch Wellcome Symposium (2007 : Nijmegen, Netherlands)

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TextSeries: Visualising the Middle Ages ; v. 4.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 320 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), plansContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789004226500
9004226508

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Medicine & space

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medicine and space.DDC classification:

610 23

LOC classification:

R141 .A54 2007eb

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Contents:

pt. 1. Spaces of anatomy -- pt. 2. The body and space -- pt. 3. Surroundings -- pt. 4. Hospitals and architecture.

Summary: This volume contributes to medical history in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by significantly widening our understandings of health and treatment through the theme of space . The fundamental question about how space was conceived by different groups of people in these periods has been used to demonstrate the multi-variant understandings of the body and its functions, illness and treatment, and the surrounding natural and built environments in relation to health. The subject is approached from a variety of source materials: medical, philosophical and religious literature, archaeological remains and artistic reproductions. By taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject the volume offers new interpretations and methodologies to medical history in the periods in question. Contributors are Helen King, Michael McVaugh, Maithe Hulskamp, Glenda McDonald, Roberto Lo Presti, Fabiola van Dam, Catrien Santing, Ralph Rosen, and Irina Metzler.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index.

pt. 1. Spaces of anatomy -- pt. 2. The body and space -- pt. 3. Surroundings -- pt. 4. Hospitals and architecture.

This volume contributes to medical history in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by significantly widening our understandings of health and treatment through the theme of space . The fundamental question about how space was conceived by different groups of people in these periods has been used to demonstrate the multi-variant understandings of the body and its functions, illness and treatment, and the surrounding natural and built environments in relation to health. The subject is approached from a variety of source materials: medical, philosophical and religious literature, archaeological remains and artistic reproductions. By taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject the volume offers new interpretations and methodologies to medical history in the periods in question. Contributors are Helen King, Michael McVaugh, Maithe Hulskamp, Glenda McDonald, Roberto Lo Presti, Fabiola van Dam, Catrien Santing, Ralph Rosen, and Irina Metzler.

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