Tertullian and the Unborn Child

Julian Barr

• Paperback | Engels | Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
• Tertullian of Carthage was the earliest Christian writer to argue against abortion at length, and the first surviving Latin author to consider the unb... Lees meer

Hippocratic Oratory

James Cross

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
• On Ancient Medicine, On the Art , On Breaths , On the Nature of Human Beings and On the Sacred Disease are among the most well-known and sophisticated... Lees meer

Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt

Ada Nifosi

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
• How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women's bodies and how did it acknowledge women's reproductive functions? Detailing women's lives in Gre... Lees meer

Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt

Ada Nifosi

• Paperback | Engels | Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
• How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women's bodies and how did it acknowledge women's reproductive functions? Detailing women's lives in Gre... Lees meer

Tertullian and the Unborn Child

Julian Barr

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
• Tertullian of Carthage was the earliest Christian writer to argue against abortion at length, and the first surviving Latin author to consider the unb... Lees meer

Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy

Jane Draycott

• Paperback | Engels | Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
• Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and sl... Lees meer

Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy

Jane Draycott

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
• Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and sl... Lees meer

Sleep and Dreams in Early Greek Thought

Stephanie Holton

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
• This book examines how sleep and dreams were approached in early Greek thought, highlighting the theories of the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers o... Lees meer

Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures

• Paperback | Engels | Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
• Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical disease concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, con... Lees meer

Prostheses in Antiquity

• Paperback | Engels | Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
• Today, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, generally designed and assembled according to the individual's appearan... Lees meer