Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic EgyptExamining all forms of healing within the specific socioeconomic and environmental constraints of the Ptolemies’ Egypt, this book explores how linguistic, cultural and ethnic affiliations and interactions were expressed in the medical domain. |
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Inhalt
Chapter One Greeks and Egyptians | 1 |
Chapter Two Medicine and the Gods | 45 |
Chapter Three Theoretical Perspectives | 101 |
Chapter Four Responses to Illness | 141 |
Chapter Five Identifying Medical Practitioners | 205 |
Chapter Six Medicine in Alexandria | 243 |
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