Death on the Nile
Subtitle: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers; Brill
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789004123236
Subjects: Diseases & disorders; History of medicine; Population & demography; BCE to c 500 CE; History; Diseases; Social Science; Medical / Nursing; Sociology; Ancient Egypt; Interior Design - General; Ancient - General; Epidemiology; Demography; Sociology - General; Ancient - Egypt; Egypt; Medicine, Ancient
Description: "A pioneering comparative and multidisciplinary study of the interaction between local disease environments and 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 pre-modern disease patterns, challenges existing assumptions about ancient age structure, and develops a new methodology for the assessment of Egyptian population size." "Contextualising the study of Roman Egypt within the broader framework of pre-modern 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."--Jacket.