Blood Sweat and Tears The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity Into Early Modern Europe Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 22 June 2012

Drawing on the methods of a wide range of academic disciplines, this volume shifts the focus of the history of the body, exploring the many different ways in which its

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 18 May 2023

This open access book offers new insights into the Venetian physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561–1636) and into the origins of quantification in medicine. At the turn of the seventeenth century, Sanctorius developed

• Publisher : Routledge
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From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexuality, politics, emotions, and morality, and how

• Publisher : BRILL
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The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine explores how analogy and metaphor illuminate and shape conceptions about the human body and disease, through 11

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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Using a three-part structure focused on the major historical subjects of the Inquisition, the Reformation and witchcraft, Christopher Kissane examines the relationship between food and religion in early modern Europe.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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Recent scholarship has shown that modern postural yoga is the outcome of a complex process of transcultural exchange and syncretism. This book doubles down on those claims and digs even

• Publisher : CRC Press
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• Release Date : 15 September 2022

This text is both a history of skin disease and a history of dermatology, telling the human historical experience of skin disease and how we have come to know what

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy is an outstanding reference source for the wide range of philosophical contributions made by women writing in Europe from about 1560

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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Consensus holds that Lucretius admired the literary prestige of Homeric epos, the form that Ennius famously introduced to Latin literature. However, some hold that Lucretius disagreed with Ennius' quasi-Pythagorean claim

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This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth