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dc.contributor.editorSteinert, Ulrike
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-02T10:16:33Z
dc.date.available2020-07-02T10:16:33Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39910
dc.description.abstract"Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical illness concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness from antiquity to the 17th century. Focusing on the systematisation and classification of illness in its multiple forms, manifestations and causes, this volume examines case studies ranging from popular concepts illness through to specialist discourses on it. Using philological, historical and anthropological approaches, the contributions cover perspectives across time from East Asian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures, spanning ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome to Tibet and China. They aim to capture the multiplicity of illness concepts and medical traditions within specific societies, and to investigate the historical dynamics of stability and change linked to such concepts. Providing useful material for comparative research, the volume is a key resource for researchers studying the cultural conceptualisation of illness, including anthropologists, historians, and classicists, amongst others."en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient historyen_US
dc.subject.otherclassicsen_US
dc.subject.otherpre-modernen_US
dc.subject.othermedicalen_US
dc.subject.otherculturesen_US
dc.subject.otherclassificationen_US
dc.subject.otherhealthen_US
dc.subject.othercomparativeen_US
dc.subject.othercomparisonen_US
dc.titleSystems of Classification in Premodern Medical Culturesen_US
dc.title.alternativeSickness, Health, and Local Epistemologiesen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isFundedBy7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79
oapen.collectionEuropean Research Council (ERC)en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages338en_US
oapen.grant.number323596
oapen.grant.acronymBabMed
oapen.remark.public21-7-2020 - No DOI registered in CrossRef for ISBN 9781138571129


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