The care of the needy and the sick is delivered by various groups including immediate family,
the wider community, religious organisations and the State funded institutions. The Locus …

The hospital was "invented" in the fourth-century Byzantine Empire as a charitable institution
for the overnight relief of the poor and sick but not necessarily for medical treatment. It …

SEA AND OCEAN HISTORY IS MORE NOVEL than it sounds. It admirably exemplifies a
new historiography of large areas. In one sense, the inquiry revisits a traditional historical …

Norman Cousins' Anatomy of an Illness ought to be required reading for historians of pre-modern
medicine. The origins of the relevant medical theory lie in various passages of Galen, …

The medical writings of early medieval western Europe c. 700 – c. 1000 have often been
derided for their disorganised appearance, poor Latin, nebulous conceptual framework, …

I borrow the main term of my title from a recent paper by the anthropologist Michael Herzfeld,
in which he once again interprets the sin of “Mediterraneanism” that he invented. Now he …

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of twelve articles written both jointly
and individually by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell as they have participated in the …

The Corrupting Sea is a history of the relationship between people and their environments
in the Mediterranean region over some 3,000 years. It offers a novel analysis of this …

Music, whether performed or heard, has been seen as therapeutic in the history of many
cultures. How have its therapeutic properties been conceptualized and explained? Which …

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