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Roman North Africa Environment, Society and Medical Contribution
Author
Title
Roman North Africa [electronic resource] : Environment, Society and Medical Contribution / Louise Cilliers.
ISBN
9048542685
9789048542680
Published
Amsterdam [Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, [2019] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (256 pages) :) illustrations.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 African Studies
Project MUSE - 2019 History
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Series
Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ; 3
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-243) and index.
Contents
History, environment, population and cultural life
Health facilities in the cities of Roman North Africa
Greek, Roman and Christian views on the causes of infectious epidemic diseases
The knowledge and competence of physicians in the late Roman Empire
Vindicianus : physician, proconsul, mentor
Theodorus Priscianus on drugs and therapies
More fifth-century Latinizers : Cassius Felix, Caelius Aurelianus and Muscio
Augustine and the medical scene in Roman North Africa in the late fourth and early fifth centuries
Reciprocal influences : Greco-Roman and Christian views of healing
The role of Roman North Africa in the preservation and transmission of medical knowledge.
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