Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Patricia A. Baker , Han Nijdam and Karine van ’t Land -- Introduction: / Patricia Baker and Han Nijdam -- Spaces of Anatomy Fistulas, the Knee, and the ‘Three-dimensional’ Body / Michael McVaugh -- Inside and Outside, Cavities and Containers: / Helen King -- The Body and Space The ‘locus affectus’ in Ancient Medical Theories of Disease / Glenda Camille McDonald -- Internal, Yet Extrinsic: / Karine van ’t Land -- Permeable Boundaries: / Fabiola I.W.M. van Dam -- Surroundings Space and the Body: / Maithe A.A. Hulskamp -- Shaping the Difference: / Roberto Lo Presti -- Death and the City: / Catrien Santing -- Hospitals and Architecture Spaces of Sickness in Greco-Roman Medicine / Ralph M. Rosen -- Medieval Islamic Hospitals: / Patricia Baker -- Liminality and Disability: / Irina Metzler -- Bibliography / Patricia A. Baker , Han Nijdam and Karine van ’t Land -- Index / Patricia A. Baker , Han Nijdam and Karine van ’t Land.

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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.