Symposium on Byzantine Medicine.

[Byzantine Medicine] SCARBOROUGH, John (editor).

Published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1984., Washington, DC:, 1984

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Papers, No. 38. 4to. xvi, 282 pp. Figures, index. Gilt-stamped blue cloth. Ex-library copy ΓΆΒ Β" bookplate and embossed stamp of the Los Angeles County Medical Assoc. Historical Collection; spine call no. over-painted; front pocket. Very good. Contains 21 papers by leading scholars, in a volume dedicated to Owsei Temkin, and becoming, in itself, an important symposium on the history of Byzantine medicine. / CONTENTS: Symposium on Byzantine Medicine: Introduction [1] VIVIAN NUTTON, From Galen to Alexander: Aspects of Medicine and Medical Practice in Late Antiquity; [2] BARRY BALDWIN, Beyond the House Cail: Doctors in Early Byzantine History and Politics; [3] JOHN DUFFY, Byzantine Medicine in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries: Aspects of Teaching and Practice; [4] JOSEPH A. M. SONDERKAMP, Theophanes Nonnus: Medicine in the Circle of Constantine Porphyrogenitus; [5] ALEXANDER KAZHDAN, The Image of the Medical Doctor in Byzantine Literature of the Tenth to Twelfth Centuries; [6] TIMOTHY S. MILLER, Byzantine Hospitals; [7] GARY VIKAN, Art, Medicine, and Magic in Early Byzantium; [8] SUSAN ASHBROOK HARVEY, Physicians and Ascetics in John of Ephesus: An Expedient Alliance; [9] JOHN M. RIDDLE, Byzantine Commentaries on Dioscorides; [10] ROBERT B. TODD, Philosophy and Medicine in John Philoponus' Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima; [11] ANNE-MARIE DOYEN-HIGUET, The Hippiatrica and Byzantine Veterinary Medicine; [12] ARMIN HOHLWEG, John Actuarius' De methodo medendi-On the New Edition; [13] MICHAEL DOLS, Insanity in Byzantine and Islamic Medicine; [14] JOHN THEODORIDES, Rabies in Byzantine Medicine; [15] ROBERT RENEHAN, Meletius' Chapter on the Eyes: An Unidentified Source; [16] EMILIE SAVAGE-SMITH, Hellenistic and Byzantine Ophthalmology. Trachoma and Sequelae; [17] LAWRENCE J. BLIQUEZ, Two Lists of Greek Surgical Instruments and the State of Surgery in Byzantine Times; [18] JERRY STANNARD, Aspects of Byzantine Materia Medica; [19] JOHN SCARBOROUGH, Early Byzantine Pharmacology; [20] ELINOR LIEBER, Asaf's Book of Medicines: A Hebrew Encyclopedia of Greek and Jewish Medicine, Possibly Compiled in Byzantium on an Indian Model; [21] GERHARD BAADER, Early Medieval Latin Adaptations of Byzantine Medicine in Western Europe; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INDEX. Seller Inventory # M14653

Bibliographic Details

Title: Symposium on Byzantine Medicine.
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1984., Washington, DC:
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Hardcover