Title: Medicine And Society In Ptolemaic Egypt
Description: Current questions over 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.
Subjects: Social medicine, Medical care, Public health, egypt, Egypt, social life and customs, Physicians, Ancient Medicine, Greek and Roman Medicine, Medical logic, Medicine, Egyptian Medicine, Human body, History, Medicine, egyptian, Medicine, ancient, Medicine, greek and roman, Medicine, philosophy, Medicine, egypt, Medicine, history, History of Medicine, Greek World, Health Personnel, Ancient History, Religion and Medicine