TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scheidel,Walter
TI  - Death on the Nile: disease and the demography of Roman Egypt 
T2  - Mnemosyne supplements,
SN  - 9789004350946
AV  - R653.E4 S36 2001
U1  - 614.4/232 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Egypt
KW  - History
KW  - Demography
KW  - Medicine, Ancient
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-286) and index; Preliminary Material -- MORTALITY PATTERNS AND CAUSES OF DEATH -- AGE STRUCTURE AND LIFE EXPECTANCY -- POPULATION SIZE AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE -- MONTHS OF DEATH IN EPITAPHS FROM ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL EGYPT AND NUBIA -- PERSONS WITH EXACT AGES IN THE CENSUS RETURNS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE by H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , D.M. Schenkeveld , P.H. Schrijvers and S.R. Slings; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - A pioneering comparative and multidisciplinary study of the interaction between local disease environments and demographic structure, this book breaks new ground in reconstructing the population history of Egypt during the Roman period and beyond. Drawing on a wide range of sources from ancient census data and funerary commemorations to modern medical accounts, statistics and demographic models, the author explores the nature of premodern disease patterns, challenges existing assumptions about ancient age structure, and develops a new methodology for the assessment of Egyptian poplation size. Contextualising the study of Roman Egypt within the broader framework of premodern demography, ecology and medical history, this is the first attempt to interpret and explain demographic conditions in antiquity in terms of the underlying causes of disease and death
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004350946
ER  -