Practitioners, practices, and patients :  new approaches to medical archaeology and anthropology : proceedings of a conference held at Magdalene College, Cambridge, November 2000 / 
edited by Patricia Anne Baker and Gillian Carr. 
 - Oxford :  Oakville, CT, USA :  Oxbow Books ;  David Brown Bk. Co. [distributor],  c2002. 
 - xi, 259 p. :  ill., maps ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Medical anthropology, material culture, and new directions in medical archaeology /  Diagnosing some ills: the archaeology, literature and history of Roman medicine /  Tuberculosis: a multidisciplinary approach to past and current concepts, causes and treatment of this infectious disease /  A preliminary account of the doctor's grave at Stanway, Colchester, England /  A time to live, a time to heal and a time to die: healing and divination in later Iron Age and early Roman Britain /  A computer simulation of Mambila divination /  Beer, trees, pigs and chickens: medical books of the Lohorung shaman and priest /  Healing here, there and in-between: a Tamu shaman's experience of international landscapes /  The Xaghra Shaman? /  Tobacco and curing agency in Western Amazonian shamanism /  Magic, healing, or death? Issues of Seidr, 'balance', and morality in past and present /  Of crystal balls, political power, and changing contexts: what the clever women of Salerno inherited /  Lithic therapy in early Chinese body practices /  Kill or cure: Athenian judicial curses and the body in fear /  Etruscan female tooth evulsion: gold dental appliances as ornaments /  Elisabeth Hsu --  Patricia Anne Baker --  Charlotte Roberts --  Philip Crummy --  Gillian Carr --  David Zeitlyn --  Charlotte Hardman --  Judith Pettigrew and Yarjung Tamu --  Simon Stoddart --  Françoise Barbira Freedman --  Jenny Blain --  Christopher Knüsel --  Vivienne Lo --  Ralph Anderson --  Marshall Joseph Becker. 
<br/><br/> Medical archaeologists and anthropologists are both interested in the cultural constructions of disease, healing and medicine, and the papers presented in this volume aim to bridge the disciplinary gap, widen the field of interpretation, and reconsider the cultural complexities of medical ideologies, beliefs and practices. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1842170791 (pbk.) 9781842170793 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA3-04209 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101167217  DNLM 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medicine, Traditional--history<br/>Medicine in Literature<br/>Archaeology--methods<br/>History, Ancient<br/>Medische antropologie.<br/>Archeologie.<br/>Medical anthropology--Congresses<br/>Medical archaeology--Congresses.<br/>Medicine--History--Congresses<br/>Material culture--Congresses<br/>Anthropologie médicale--Congrès.<br/>Archéologie--Méthodologie--Congrès.<br/>Médecine dans la littérature--Congrès.<br/>Ethnomédecine--Histoire--Congrès.<br/>Culture matérielle--Congrès.<br/>Histoire ancienne--Congrès.<br/>Médecine--Histoire--Congrès.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Congress<br/>Conference papers and proceedings<br/>History<br/>Conference papers and proceedings.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN296  / .P729 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.461 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>2003 B-882 WZ 51  / P895 2002