Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-283) and index.
Contents:
'Carrying on the work of the earlier firm' : doctors, medicine and Christianity in the Thaumata of Sophronius of Jerusalem / Dominic Montserrat. Health and disease in Greece : past, present and future / Charlotte Roberts ... [et al.] -- Health in Hellenistic and Roman times : the case studies of Paphos, Cyprus and Corinth, Greece / Sherry C. Fox -- Health and the life course at Herculaneum and Pompeii / Ray Laurence -- Holding on to health? : bone surgery and instrumentation in the Roman Empire / Ralph Jackson -- 'Without you no one is happy' : the cult of health in ancient Greece / Emma Stafford -- Hygieia at dinner and at the symposium / John Wilkins -- Women's health and recovery in the Hippocratic corpus / Helen King -- Drama and healing : ancient and modern / Karelisa Hartigan -- 'Curing' disability / Nicholas Vlahogiannis -- The salubriousness of the Roman city / Neville Morley -- Buildings for health : then and now / Peter Barefoot -- The health of the spiritual athlete / Gillian Clark -- 'Carrying on the work of the earlier firm' : doctors, medicine and Christianity in the Thaumata of Sophronius of Jerusalem / Dominic Montserrat.
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