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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 9.Publication details: Leiden [Netherlands] ; New York : E.J. Brill, [(c)1994.Description: xii, 217 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9004099417
  • 9789004099418
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • R135.5.M435 1994
  • R135.5.K87.M435 1994
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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