Practitioners, Practices and Patients : New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology : Proceedings of a conference held at Magdalene College, Cambridge, November 2000

by: Baker, P.A. Carr, G.

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Practitioners, practices, and patients : new approaches to medical archaeology and anthropology : proceedings of a conference held at Magdalene College, Cambridge, November 2000

Authors:Patricia Anne Baker, Gillian Carr

Summary:Medical archaeologists and anthropologists are both interested in the cultural constructions of disease, healing and medicine, and the papers presented in this volume aim to bridge the disciplinary gap, widen the field of interpretation, and reconsider the cultural complexities of medical ideologies, beliefs and practices

xi, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Contents:
Medical anthropology, material culture, and new directions in medical archaeology (Elisabeth Hsu) Diagnosing some ills: the archaeology, literature and history of Roman medicine (Patricia A Baker) Tuberculosis: a multidisciplinary approach to past and current concepts, causes and treatment of this infectious disease (Charlotte Roberts) A preliminary account of the doctor's grave at Stanway, Colchester (Philip Crummy) A time to live a time to heal and a time to die: healing and divination in later Iron Age and Early Roman Britain (Gillian Carr) A Computer simulation of Mambila divination (David Zeitlyn) Beer, trees, pigs and chickens: medical tools of the Lohorung shaman and priest (Charlotte Hardman) Healing here, there and in-between: a Tamu shaman's experience of international landscapes (Judith Pettigrew and Yarjung Tamu) The Xaghra Shaman? (Simon Stoddart) Tobacco and curing agency in Western Amazonian shamanism (Françoise Barbira Freedman) Magic, healing, or death? Issues of Seidr, `balance', and morality in past and present (Jenny Blain) Of crystal balls, political power, and changing contexts: what the clever women of Salerno inherited (Christopher Knüsel) Lithic therapy in early Chinese body practices (Vivienne Lo) Kill or cure: Athenian judicial curses and the body in fear (Ralph Anderson) Etruscan female tooth evulsion: gold dental appliances as ornaments (Marshall Becker)

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by: Gurler, B.

• ISBN-13: 9789751725202 / 978-975-17-2520-2
• ISBN-03: 9751725208 / 975-17-2520-8
• T.C. Kultur Bakanligi, Ankara, 2000

Price: 59,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

Practitioners, Practices and Patients : New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology : Proceedings of a conference held at Magdalene College, Cambridge, November 2000

by: Baker, P.A. Carr, G.

• ISBN-13: 9781842170793 / 978-1-84217-079-3
• ISBN-03: 1842170791 / 1-84217-079-1
• Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2002

Price: 79,00 EURO

1 copy in stock