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Medicine in the days of the pharaohs /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Halioua, Bruno, 1959-
Other Authors: Ziskind, Bernard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
History, Ancient.
History of Medicine.
Egypt.
Table of Contents:
  • The world of the physician
  • The medical profession
  • Training and practice
  • Revelations of paleopathology
  • Mummification
  • The modern study of mummies
  • From cradle to grave
  • Mothers and children
  • Childhood and adolescence
  • Old age and deformities
  • Professional risks
  • Fishermen and farmers
  • Construction workers, miners, soldiers
  • Bakers, priests, scribes, embalmers, prostitutes