{"product_id":"medicine-and-space-body-surroundings-and-borders-in-antiquity-and-the-middle-ages-9789004216099","title":"Medicine and Space: Body, Surroundings and Borders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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. Contributors are Helen King, Michael McVaugh, Maithe Hulskamp, Glenda McDonald, Roberto Lo Presti, Fabiola van Dam, Catrien Santing, Ralph Rosen, and Irina Metzler.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...this volume reveals (if only in snapshots) the hidden dimensions of the body and the deeper structures that inform cultural discourses on illness and healing [...] This volume is of great value to those interested in the pre-modern body, from its interior spaces to the natural and man-made environments with which it was in constant communication. [...] Medicine and Space: Body, Surroundings, and Borders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages is a meaningful contribution to the history of medicine and the body, and will be useful to students and researchers alike. Brenda S. Gardenour Walter, Medieval Encounters 19 (2013), pp. 238-242 \"...De artikelen en prachtige afbeeldingen in Medicine and space sluiten naadloos op deze inzichten aan. [...] Vooral de inleiding van Patricia Baker en Han Nijdam biedt een zeer helder overzicht van deze verschillende invalshoeken. [...] Medicine and space biedt nu alvast een waardevolle ingang tot allerlei vragen naar het lichaam, ruimte en omgeving...\" Claire Weeda, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 126 (2013), pp. 410-411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ... vii Acknowledgements ... ix List of Illustrations ... xi List of Contributors ... xix Figures and Plates ... following xx  Introduction: Conceptualizing Body, Space and Borders ... 1     Patricia Baker and Han Nijdam  PART ONE: SPACES OF ANATOMY Fistulas, the Knee, and the ‘Three-dimensional’ Body     Michael McVaugh ... 23 Inside and Outside, Cavities and Containers: the Organs of Generation in Seventeenth-century English Medicine     Helen King ... 37  PART TWO: THE BODY AND SPACE The ‘locus afffectus’ in Ancient Medical Theories of Disease     Glenda Camille McDonald ... 63 Internal, Yet Extrinsic: Conceptions of Bodily Space and their Relation to Causality in Late Medieval University Medicine     Karine van ’t Land ... 85 Permeable Boundaries: Bodies, Bathing and Fluxes: 1135–1333     Fabiola I.W.M. van Dam ... 117  PART THREE: SURROUNDINGS Space and the Body: Uses of Astronomy in Hippocratic Medicine     Maithe A.A. Hulskamp ... 149 Shaping the Diffference: The Medical Inquiry into the Nature of Places and the Early Birth of Anthropology in the Hippocratic Treatise Airs Waters Places     Roberto Lo Presti ... 169 Death and the City: The Human Corpse as an Embodiment of Public Wellbeing in Counter-Reformation Rome     Catrien Santing ... 197  PART FOUR: HOSPITALS AND ARCHITECTURE Spaces of Sickness in Greco-Roman Medicine     Ralph M. Rosen ... 227 Medieval Islamic Hospitals: Structural Design and Social Perceptions     Patricia Baker ... 245 Liminality and Disability: Spatial and Conceptual Aspects of Physical Impairment in Medieval Europe     Irina Metzler ... 273  Bibliography ... 297 Index ... 309","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210626818391,"sku":"9789004216099","price":199.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/medicine-and-space-body-surroundings-and-borders-in-antiquity-and-the-middle-ages-9789004216099","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}