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041 0 $aEnglish
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072 7 $aHBLA$2bicssc
100 1 $aSteinert, Ulrike$4edt
700 1 $aSteinert, Ulrike$4oth
245 10 $aSystems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures : Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies
260 $bTaylor & Francis$c2020
300 $a1 electronic resource (338 p.)
506 0 $aOpen Access$2star$fUnrestricted online access
520 $a"Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical illness concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness from antiquity to the 17th century.

Focusing on the systematisation and classification of illness in its multiple forms, manifestations and causes, this volume examines case studies ranging from popular concepts illness through to specialist discourses on it. Using philological, historical and anthropological approaches, the contributions cover perspectives across time from East Asian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures, spanning ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome to Tibet and China. They aim to capture the multiplicity of illness concepts and medical traditions within specific societies, and to investigate the historical dynamics of stability and change linked to such concepts.

Providing useful material for comparative research, the volume is a key resource for researchers studying the cultural conceptualisation of illness, including anthropologists, historians, and classicists, amongst others."
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546 $aEnglish
650 7 $aAncient history: to c 500 CE$2bicssc
653 $aclassics
653 $apre-modern
653 $amedical
653 $acultures
653 $aclassification
653 $ahealth
653 $acomparative
653 $acomparison
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856 40 $awww.oapen.org$uhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39910$70$zOAPEN Library: description of the publication