Practitioners, practices and patients : new approaches to medical archaeology and anthropology : proceedings of a conference held at Magdalene College, Cambridge, November 2000
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Practitioners, practices and patients : new approaches to medical archaeology and anthropology : proceedings of a conference held at Magdalene College, Cambridge, November 2000
Oxbow Books, c2002
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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Medical care in the past, and indeed present societies, can be studied in a number of different ways, including palaeopatholoy, palaeobotany, literary evidence, material culture and different medical ideologies and belief systems. These 15 papers from a conference held at Magdalene College, Cambridge in 2000 explore these diverse forms of interpretation, though largely focusing on material culture aspects.
Table of Contents
Medical anthropology, material culture, and new directions in medical archaeology (Elisabeth Hsu)
Diagnosing some ills: the archaeology, literature and history of Roman medicine (Patricia A Baker)
Tuberculosis: a multidisciplinary approach to past and current concepts, causes and treatment of this infectious disease (Charlotte Roberts)
A preliminary account of the doctor's grave at Stanway, Colchester (Philip Crummy)
A time to live a time to heal and a time to die: healing and divination in later Iron Age and Early Roman Britain (Gillian Carr)
A Computer simulation of Mambila divination (David Zeitlyn)
Beer, trees, pigs and chickens: medical tools of the Lohorung shaman and priest (Charlotte Hardman)
Healing here, there and in-between: a Tamu shaman's experience of international landscapes (Judith Pettigrew and Yarjung Tamu)
The Xaghra Shaman? (Simon Stoddart)
Tobacco and curing agency in Western Amazonian shamanism (Francoise Barbira Freedman)
Magic, healing, or death? Issues of Seidr, `balance', and morality in past and present (Jenny Blain)
Of crystal balls, political power, and changing contexts: what the clever women of Salerno inherited (Christopher Knusel)
Lithic therapy in early Chinese body practices (Vivienne Lo)
Kill or cure: Athenian judicial curses and the body in fear (Ralph Anderson)
Etruscan female tooth evulsion: gold dental appliances as ornaments (Marshall Becker)
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