Time and Ancient Medicine : How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science

Explores how the introduction of timekeeping technologies -- sundials and water clocks -- affected the practice, rhetoric, and theory of ancient medicine; and, conversely, how medical timekeeping practices affected engagement with time elsewhere in society, drawing on literary and material evidence from ancient Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia, and Egypt..

Medienart:

E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

©2024

Erschienen:

Oxford: Oxford University Press, Incorporated ; 2024

©2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Miller, Kassandra J. [VerfasserIn]

Links:

ebookcentral.proquest.com [lizenzpflichtig]

ISBN:

978-0-19-888519-1

Themen:

Medicine, Ancient

Anmerkungen:

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Umfang:

1 online resource (225 pages)

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

1856592677