Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt

by Rosalie David and Roger Forshaw

Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt provides a new perspective on healthcare and healing treatments in Egypt from the Predynastic to the Roman periods. Rather than concentrating exclusively on diseases and medical conditions as evidenced in ancient sources, it provides a 'people-focused' perspective, asking what it was like to be ill or disabled in this society? Who were the healers? To what extent did disease occurrence and treatment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1837644292
• ISBN13: 9781837644292
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"