Author: Sebastián Kneipp
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788499501291
Category : Medical
Languages : es
Pages : 82

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Author: Creative Media Partners, LLC
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781376336108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331919917X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Ethnobiology is a fascinating science. To understand this vocation it needs to be studied under an evolutionary point of view that is very strong and significant, although this aspect is often poorly approached in the literature. This is the first book to compile and discuss information about evolutionary ethnobiology in English.

Author: Luisa Maffi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136544259
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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The field of biocultural diversity is emerging as a dynamic, integrative approach to understanding the links between nature and culture and the interrelationships between humans and the environment at scales from the global to the local. Its multifaceted contributions have ranged from theoretical elaborations, to mappings of the overlapping distributions of biological and cultural diversity, to the development of indicators as tools to measure, assess, and monitor the state and trends of biocultural diversity, to on-the-ground implementation in field projects. This book is a unique compendium and analysis of projects from all around the world that take an integrated biocultural approach to sustaining cultures and biodiversity. The 45 projects reviewed exemplify a new focus in conservation: this is based on the emerging realization that protecting and restoring biodiversity and maintaining and revitalizing cultural diversity and cultural vitality are intimately, indeed inextricably, interrelated. Published with Terralingua and IUCN

Author: Michael Gelfand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Sebastian Kneipp
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydrotherapy
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Author: Richard A. Gabriel
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597978485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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Examines the fascinating role of medicine in ancient military cultures; Shows how the ancients understood the body, patched up their warriors, and sent them back into battle; Reveals medical secrets lost during the Dark Ages; Explores how ancient civilizations' technologies have influenced modern medical practices

Author: Lawrence I. Conrad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521475648
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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This text, written by members of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and first published in 1995, is designed to cover the history of western medicine from classical antiquity to 1800. As one guiding thread it takes, as its title suggests, the system of medical ideas that in large part went back to the Greeks of the eighth century BC, and played a major role in the understanding and treatment of health and disease. Its influence spread from the Aegean basin to the rest of the Mediterranean region, to Europe, and then to European settlements overseas. By the nineteenth century, however, this tradition no longer carried the same force or occupied so central a position within medicine. This book charts the influence of this tradition, examining it in its social and historical context. It is essential reading as a synthesis for all students of the history of medicine.

Author: Vivian Nutton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000963861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds, written by the foremost expert on the subject, has been updated to incorporate the many new discoveries made in the field over the past decade. This revised volume includes discussions of several new or forgotten works by Galen and his contemporaries, as well as of new archaeological material. RNA analysis has expanded our understanding of disease in the ancient world; the book explores the consequences of this for sufferers, for example in creating disability. Nutton also expands upon the treatment of pre-Galenic medicine in Greece and Rome. In addition, subtitles and a chronology will make for easier student consultation, and the bibliography is substantially revised and updated, providing avenues for future student research. This third edition of Ancient Medicine will remain the definitive textbook on the subject for students of medicine in the classical world, and the history of medicine and science more broadly, with much to interest scholars in the field as well.

Author: Pedanius Dioscorides
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783487147192
Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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