Medicine and hygiene in the works of Flavius Josephus / by Samuel S. Kottek. [print]

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Kottek, Samuel S [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9004099417
9789004099418

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LOC classification:

R135
R135.K87.M435 1994

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Contents:

Ch. I. Physicians and Healing Personnel -- Ch. II. Diseases and Epidemics -- Ch. III. Hygiene and Public Health -- Ch. IV. War Injuries and Traumatology -- Ch. V. Psychiatry and Psychology -- Ch. Virgin Islands Therapeutics and Materia Medica -- Ch. Virgin IslandsI. Medical Metaphors -- App. 1. Epidemics in Ancient Lore: from Thucydides to Josephus -- App. 2. Hygiene and Healing among the Essenes: Josephus' testimony -- App. 3. Josephus on Suicide -- App. 4. King Herod's Disease(s) -- App. 5. Josephus the Physician: A Medieval Legend.

Subject: 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.Summary: Moreover, his account of the Jewish War and of contemporary political events includes many details related to medicine and hygiene.Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	R135.5.K68 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001512819

Introduction: Josephus, the man and the scholar -- Ch. I. Physicians and Healing Personnel -- Ch. II. Diseases and Epidemics -- Ch. III. Hygiene and Public Health -- Ch. IV. War Injuries and Traumatology -- Ch. V. Psychiatry and Psychology -- Ch. Virgin Islands Therapeutics and Materia Medica -- Ch. Virgin IslandsI. Medical Metaphors -- App. 1. Epidemics in Ancient Lore: from Thucydides to Josephus -- App. 2. Hygiene and Healing among the Essenes: Josephus' testimony -- App. 3. Josephus on Suicide -- App. 4. King Herod's Disease(s) -- App. 5. Josephus the Physician: A Medieval Legend.

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.

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