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| Title: Medicine and Hygiene in the Works of Flavius Josephus Secondary Title: Studies in Ancient Medicine 9 Pages: XII, 217 Type: Book Year: 1994 Abstract: "After a brief introduction to Josephus the man and the scholar, this volume discusses his medical knowledge under the following headings: physicians and healing personnel, diseases and epidemics, hygiene and public health, war injuries and traumatology, psychiatry and psychology, therapeutics and materia medica, and medical metaphors. The five appendixes deal with epidemics in ancient lore (from Thucydides to Josephus), hygiene and healing among the Essenes according to Josephus, Josephus on suicide, King Herod' s disease(s), and the medieval legend of Josephus the physician. Kottek is assistant professor of the history of medicine at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem". Keywords: Specific Examinations of Josephus, collections of Josephus Flavius Josephus, knowledge, medicine. Jews, medicine. History of medicine, ancient. Public health, history. |