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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Salazar, Christine F., The treatment of war wounds in Graeco-Roman antiquity, Leiden - Boston, Brill (Studies in Ancient Medicine, 21), 2000, xxxvii + 299 pp.
- Resum
- Part One deals with the practical, medical aspects of the topic: the types of wounds likely to result from a battle, their surgical and pharmacological treatment, the question of medical services in ancient armies, medical terminology and the availability of medical knowledge. Part Two discusses the use of scenes of wounding and wound treatment in literature, and Part Three is a survey of the archaeological evidence. This is the first monograph to examine the topic in all its different aspects, it should be of interest to classicists, medical historians and military historians. Based on the author's Ph.D. thesis (University of Cambridge, 1991).
Contents:
-- pt. 1. Wounds and Their Treatment
* Ch. 1. Sources
* Ch. 2. Surgical Aspects of Wound Treatment
* Ch. 3. Pharmaka
* Ch. 4. Medical Services in Armies
* Ch. 5. Expert and Layman
-- pt. 2. Wounding as a Code
* Ch. 6. The Iliad
* Ch. 7. Beautiful Death; the Adjustment of an Ideal
* Ch. 8. Alexander the Great
* Ch. 9. Epilogue
-- pt. 3. Non-Textual Material
* Ch. 10. The Archaeological Evidence
- Matèries
- Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
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