Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs
By: Bruno Halioua, Bernard Ziskind, Translated by M.B. DeBevoise
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Belknap Press; Brand: Belknap Press
Published: April 15, 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: La médecine au temps des pharaons
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780674017023
Copyright date: 2002, 2005
Other titles: La médecine au temps des pharaons
Description: "Bruno Halioua and Bernard Ziskind provide a comprehensive account of pharaonic medicine that is illuminated by what modern science has discovered about the lives (and deaths) of people from many walks of life - farmers, fishermen, miners, soldiers, scribes and priests, embalmers, construction workers, bakers, prostitutes. From mummies and medical papyri we are able to recognize the aches of osteoarthritis, imagine the occupational hazards faced by press-ganged stonemasons, and learn of the gynecological complaints of courtesans. In presenting these stories Halioua and Ziskind throw light on some of the most enduring questions about life and death in antiquity: about physicians whose skills predate Hippocrates by twenty-five centuries and were first made famous by Homer; about the remedies and techniques they employed, at once strange and strangely familiar; about the men, women and children they treated; and about the diseases and injuries they were called upon to heal."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Forward by Donald B. Redford
pagenum: vii; title: Translator's Note
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Part I
title: The Word of the Physician; label: Chapter 1
title: The Medical Profession
pagenum: 7; label: Chapter 2
title: Training and Practice
pagenum: 23; label: Part II
title: Revelations of Paleopathology; label: Chapter 3
title: Mummification
pagenum: 43; label: Chapter 4
title: The Modern Study of Mummies
pagenum: 53; label: Part III
title: From Cradle to Grave; label: Chapter 5
title: Mothers and Children
pagenum: 69; label: Chapter 6
title: Childhood and Adolescence
pagenum: 82; label: Chapter 7
title: Old Age and Deformities
pagenum: 95; label: Part IV
title: Professional Risks; label: Chapter 8
title: Fishermen and Farmers
pagenum: 115; label: Chapter 9
title: Construction Workers, Miners, Soldiers
pagenum: 128; label: Chapter 10
title: Bakers, Priests, Scribes, Embalmers, Prostitutes
pagenum: 158; label: Epilogue
title: Transmission of Egyptian Medical Knowledge
pagenum: 179; title: Endmatter; title: Primary Sources for Egyptian Medicine
pagenum: 189; title: Interpreting the Ten Plagues of Egypt
pagenum: 197; title: Chronology of Ancient Egypt
pagenum: 205; title: Notes
pagenum: 209; title: Works Cited
pagenum: 239; title: Illustration Credits
pagenum: 257; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 261; title: Index
pagenum: 263