Baker, P.A. and van’t Land, K. and Nijdam, H., eds. (2011) Medicine and Space: Body, Buildings and Borders in the Classical and Medieval Traditions. Visualising the Middle Ages, 4 . Brill, Leiden, 456 pp. ISBN 9789004216099.
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Abstract
This volume contributes to medical history in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by significantly widening our understandings of health and treatment through the theme of space . The fundamental question about how space was conceived by different groups of people in these periods has been used to demonstrate the multi-variant understandings of the body and its functions, illness and treatment, and the surrounding natural and built environments in relation to health. The subject is approached from a variety of source materials: medical, philosophical and religious literature, archaeological remains and artistic reproductions. By taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject the volume offers new interpretations and methodologies to medical history in the periods in question.
| Item Type: | Edited book |
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| Additional information: | Includes: Includes: A) Baker, P. 2012. Medieval Islamic Hospitals: Spatial Conceptions of the Ill Body, pp. 245-272. B) Baker, P. and H. Nijdam 2012. Introduction pp. 1-22. |
| Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Humanities > School of European Culture and Languages > Classical and Archaeological Studies |
| Depositing User: | Patricia Baker |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2012 12:04 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Sep 2012 10:14 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/28977 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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