The Tools of Asclepius: Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (Studies in Ancient Medicine, Band 43) - Hardcover

Bliquez, Lawrence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004279075 ISBN 13: 9789004279070

Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

With The Tools of Asclepius Lawrence Bliquez offers the first comprehensive treatment in English of the instruments and paraphernalia employed by Greco-Roman surgeons since John St. Milne's Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (1907).
Introductory sections cover topics ranging from literary and archaeological sources to the design, materials and production of instruments and the training and practice of the doctors-surgeons who used them. Summaries of Hippocratic and Hellenistic surgery lead to the meat of the book: tools used during the Roman Empire. These are presented by category (e.g. Cutting Instruments) broken into subcategories (Scalpel, Lithotome, etc.). A substantial appendix deals with biodegradable items, such as suppositories. Much new material is featured and the book is richly illustrated.

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Lawrence J. Bliquez, Ph.D, Stanford University (1968), is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of numerous publications on historical and archaeological subjects focused on Greco-Roman Antiquity, in particular on Greco-Roman surgery and surgical tools, including Roman Surgical Instruments and Other Minor Objects in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Von Zabern, 1994).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004279075
• ISBN 13: 9789004279070
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 440
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