TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lang,Philippa
TI  - Medicine and society in Ptolemaic Egypt
T2  - Studies in ancient medicine
SN  - 9789004235519
AV  - R137 .L36 2013
U1  - 610.938 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Medicine, Egyptian
KW  - Medicine, Ancient
KW  - Medicine, Greek and Roman
KW  - Human body
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Medical logic
KW  - History
KW  - Physicians
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Alexandria
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Front Matter -- Greeks and Egyptians -- Medicine and the Gods -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Responses to Illness -- Identifying Medical Practitioners -- Medicine in Alexandria -- Bibliography -- Indexes; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Current questions on whether Hellenistic Egypt should be understood in terms of colonialism and imperialism, multicultural separatism, or integration and syncretism have never been closely studied in the context of healing. Yet illness affects and is affected by nutrition, disease and reproduction within larger questions of demography, agriculture and environment. It is crucial to every socio-economic group, all ages, and both sexes; perceptions and responses to illness are ubiquitous in all kinds of evidence, both Greek and Egyptian and from archaeology to literature. Examing all forms of healing within the specific socioeconomic and environmental constraints of the Ptolemies’ Egypt, this book explores how linguistic, cultural and ethnic affiliations and interactions were expressed in the medical domain
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004235519
ER  -