Diseases in the ancient Greek world

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Diseases in the ancient Greek world

Mirko D. Grmek ; translated by Mireille Muellner and Leonard Muellner

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, c1989

  • : pbk

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Les maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale

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"Softshell books edition, 1991"--T.p. verso

Translation of: Les maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale

Originally published: Paris : Payot, c1983

Includes index

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内容説明

What were the illnesses that plagued men, women, and children of the ancient world? Traditional approaches to this subject have often relied exclusively on literary evidence, but ancient texts are extraordinarily difficult to interpret. Different methodologies, archaic defitions of diseases, and technical terms whose meanings have shifted over time frustrate discovery of the actual diseases hidden behind textual sources. To uncover this "nosological reality," Mirko D. Grmek has fashioned a vast army of techniques into a new, multidisciplinary approach that combines philology, paleopathology, paleodemography, and iconography with recent developments in genetics, immunology, epidemiology, and clinical medicine. Also new is Grmek's concept of pathocoenosis (the ensemble of pathological states present in a given population) and his method of examining such ancient diseases as leprocy, tuberculosis, and syphilis in relation to one another, and to all other pathological conditions, rather than in isolation.

目次

Translators' Note Author's Preface Introduction. The Conceptualization of Pathological Events Chapter 1. Literary Reflections of Pathological Reality Chapter 2. Paleopathology: Evidence from Ancient Bones on Diseases in Greece Chapter 3. Paleodemography: Evidence from Ancient Bones on the Conditions of Daily Life in Greece Chapter 4. Common Purulent Inflammations Chapter 5. The Origin and Spread of Syphilis Chapter 6. Leprosy: The Gradual Spread of an Endemic Disease Chapter 7. Tuberculosis: A Great Killer Chapter 8. Leprosy and Tuberculosis: Their Biological Relationship Chapter 9. The Harm in Broad Beans: Legend and Reality Chapter 10. Porotic Hyperostosis, Hereditary Anemias, and Malaria Chapter 11. The Hippocratic Conception of Disease: An Exemplary Clinical Report Chapter 12. The Constitution of a Winter in Thrace: The "Cough of Perinthus" Chapter 13. A Dialogue Between a Philologist and a Physician Notes Index

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