Medicine and Hygiene in the Works of Flavius Josephus (Studies in Ancient Medicine, Vol 9)

Medicine and Hygiene in the Works of Flavius Josephus (Studies in Ancient Medicine, Vol 9)

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Book Description
This volume deals with the medical and paramedical topics, compiled from the works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian who lived in the first century C.E. in Judea, and later in Rome. The study of medicine from ancient Jewish sources has focused on the Bible and the Talmud, the content of which is primarily theological and cultural. The present work reveals two main trends. Josephus' paraphrase of the Biblical narrative introduced a number of additions and/or discrepancies which bear on medicine. Moreover, his account of the Jewish War and of contemporary political events includes many details related to medicine and hygiene. This book deals with physicians and healers, diseases and epidemics, with surgery, psychiatry and psychology, and with therapeutics. The work concludes with a discussion of medical metaphors and with a sequence of detailed treatments of topics including suicide, the Essenes and King Herod. It throws light on an aspect of Josephus studies which has rarely been considered till now.

Medicine and Hygiene in the Works of Flavius Josephus (Studies in Ancient Medicine, Vol 9),Samuel S. Kottek,Brill Academic Publishers,9004099417,Architecture,Health/Fitness,History,History Of Medicine,History of Medicine, Ancient,Interior Design - General,Jews,Josephus, Flavius,Judaism - General,Knowledge,Medicine,Medicine, Ancient,Religion,Biography: general,Jewish studies,Social history

Book Contents:

1. Medieval and Renaissance Humanism: Rhetoric, Representation, and Reform (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
2. Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters: A Census of Manuscripts Found in Part of Western Europe, Japan, and the United States of (Davis Medieval Texts and Studies, V. 9)
3. Medieval Philosophy and the Transcendentals: The Case of Thomas Aquinas (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)
4. Merchants, Politics and Society in Early Modern India: Bihar: 1733-1820 (Brill's Indological Library, Vol 10)
5. Mosaics (Decorative Techiques Series)
6. Multicultural Feng Shui: Creating Harmonious Environments
7. Muqarnas - An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture (Muqarnas)
8. Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1970-1994 (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies)
9. Oeuvres Philosophiques Et Scientifiques D'Al-Kindi: L'Optique Et LA Catoptrique (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)
10. Particles on Surfaces 8: Detection, Adhension and Removal

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