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Contents:

Preface
Conference Programme
Contributors to this Volume

PART 1 MEDICINE AND ARCHAEOLOGY
1. Medicine and Archaeology
Athanasios Diamandopoulos
2. ΗΙατρική στην Αιανή και την Άνω Μακεδονία κατά την Αρχαιότητα
ΓεωργίαΚαραμήτρου-Μεντεσίδη και Κώστας Μοσχάκης
Georgia Karamitrou-Mendesidi and Kostas Moschakis
3. Ancient Greek Votives, Vases and Stelae Depicting Medical Diseases
Stefanos Geroulanos
4. The anatomical ex-votos of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus
Demetrios Michaelides

PART 2 MEDIA
5. Providing Online Access to Graeco-Roman Medicine: BIUM’s Electronic Corpus of Ancient Physicians
Guy Cobolet

PART 3 THE AEGEAN
6. Healers and Medicines in the Mycenaean Greek Texts
Robert Arnott
7. Health and Healing on Cretan Bronze Age Peak Sanctuaries
Christine Morris and Alan Peatfield
8. Medical Knowledge on the Evidence of the Iliad
Tamar Sukhishvili

PART 4 MEDICAL AUTHORS/SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE
9. Αναζητώντας Ίχνη του Ιπποκρατικού Όρκου
Δημήτριος Λυπουρλής
Dimitrios D. Lipourlis
10. Echoing Hippocrates: Aspects of Genre Intertextuality in the 5th Century BC
Athina Papachrysostomou and Georgios Gazis
11. Ancient Medicine and Philosophy: a Philosopher’s Perspective
Eleni M. Kalokairinou
12. The Threshold of Pain: the Literary Embodiment of Pain and its Cognates in the Hippocratic Corpus
Nicholas A. E. Kalospyros
13. Le Traitéde Galien De pulsibus ad tirones : Pratique Médicale et Représentation du Corps Humain
Dina Bacalexi
14. Γαληνούτης Περγάμου «Τέχνη Ἰατρική»: Επιτομή της Ιατρικής και των Τομέων
της
ΔημήτριοςΧρ. Κουτρούμπας και Γιώργιος Παπαδόπουλος
Dimitrios C. Koutroumpas and Giorgos Papadopoulos
15. An Episode in the Historiography of Malaria in the Ancient World
Philip van der Eijk
16. Medical Dialogue in the Books on Dietetics in the De medicina: CelsusΤaking Αccount of the Patient as a Friend and Individual
Aurélien Gautherie
17. The Contribution of the 4th Century North African Physician, Helvius Vindicianus
Louise Cilliers

PART 5 SURGERY
18. Back to Basics: Surgeon’s Knives in the Roman World
Ralph Jackson
19. Alexander’s Wounds as a Paradigm for War Surgery
Alfredo Musajo Somma
20. Surgery in Byzantium
Stefanos Geroulanos, Charalambos Panaretos and Euterpe Lymperopoulou
21. Plastic Surgery of the Face in Byzantine Times
Marios Papadakis, Evangelos Sfakiotakis, Marios Fragakis, Constantinos
Trompoukis, Maria Fragaki, Moschoula Leivadara and Andreas Manios

PART 6 MEDICAMENTS AND CURES
22. The Headache Remedies of the Pseudo-Apuleius. A Modern Reappraisal
Giorgio Zanchin
23. Compound Medicines in Antiquity: a First Approach
Alain Touwaide
24. Lemnian Earth, Alum and Astringency: a Field-based Approach
Euphemia Photos-Jones and Allan J. Hall
25. Ancient Desires to Shape Progeny: The Role of Vision and Soul in Greek and Jewish Sources of Late Antiquity
Ohr Y. Margalit and Chariklia Tziraki-Segal
26. Medicine and Spas in the Roman Period: the Role of Doctors inΕstablishments with Mineral-medicinal Waters
Silvia González Soutelo

PART 7 SKELETAL REMAINS
27. Health Care and Survival of a Child with Cranial Trauma at Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain)
Filipa Cortesᾶo Silva, Juana Mᾶrquez Pérez, Joᾶo Rosa and Ana Luisa Santos
28. A Multi-disciplinary Approach for the Study of the 11th–15th century AD Human Skeletal Remains from Palaion Demarheion, Nicosia, Cyprus
Popi Chrysostomou and Yiannis Violaris

1st International CAPP Symposium‘New Approaches to Archaeological Human remains in Cyprus’
29. Introduction to the Cyprus Ancient Population Project (CAPP) and the First CAPP Symposium
Kirsi O. Lorentz
30. My Side of the Mountain: Initial Colonisation and Biological Regionalism on Cyprus through the Neolithic and Chalcolithic
Zissis Parras
31. Ante Mortem Tooth Loss in Chalcolithic Populations of Cyprus: Comparisons between Cemetery and Settlement
Kirsi O. Lorentz
32. A Preliminary Look at the Health Status of Chalcolithic Populations: Inferences from Linear Enamel Hypoplasias
Michelle Gamble and Kirsi O. Lorentz
33. A Preliminary Analysis of Trauma Patterns in Early Christian Cyprus
Sherry C. Fox, Ioanna Moutafi, Eleanna Prevedorou and Despina Pilides

PART 8 ASKLEPIOS AND INCUBATION
34. The Development of the Practice of Incubation in the Ancient World
Juliette Harrisson
35. The Authority of Physicians as Dream Interpreters in the Pergamene Asclepieion
Ido Israelowich
36. Asclepius the Divine Healer, Asclepius the Divine Physician: Epiphanies as Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools
Georgia Petridou
37. Ὁ Ξενὼν τοῦ Ἁγίου Δημητρίου: Εἰκονογραφικὰ Ζητήματα
Χαραλάμπος Μπακιρτζῆς
Charalambos Bakirtzis
38. Πληροφορίες Ιατρικού Ενδιαφέροντος σε Πηγές του Κανονικού Δικαίου
Πρωτoπρεσβύτερος Βασίλειος Χρ. Τρομπούκης
Father Vasileios Chr. Trompoukis
39. Ασθένειεςόπως Περιγράφονται σε Βίους Ιαματικών Αγίων και Τρόποι Θεραπείας αυτών
Δήμητρα Παπαϊωάννου
Demetra Papaioannou

PART 10 BYZANTINE, ARAB AND MEDIEVAL SOURCES
40. The Role of the Egyptian Sea and Land Routes in Justinian Plague: the Case of Pelusium
Costas Tsiamis, Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou and George Androutsos
41. Du Diagnostic Differential aux Therapies Prudentes : Le traitéde la rougeole et de la variole de Râzî
Mehrnaz Katouzian-Safadi and Jean-Marc Bonmatin
42. The Ancient Background of Witelo’s Theory of Vision
Maria-Magdalena Weker

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This volume indicates the direction of much current and future research and contributes substantially to a wider picture of the field of Mediterranean medical history.--Patricia A Clark ", Volume 90, Number 2, Summer 2016"

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