by Bruno Halioua and Bernard Ziskind translated by M. B. DeBevoise
Harvard University Press, 2005 Cloth: 978-0-674-01702-3 Library of Congress Classification R137.H3413 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 610.932
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I * The World of the Physician
1 The Medical Profession 7
2 Training and Practice 2i
Part II - Revelations of Paleopathology
3 Mummification 43
4 The Modern Study of Mummies 53
Part III * From Cradle to Grave
5 Mothers and Children 69
6 Childhood and Adolescence 82
7 Old Age and Deformities 95
Part IV * Professional Risks
8 Fishermen and Farmers 115
9 Construction Workers, Miners, Soldiers I28
10 Bakers, Priests, Scribes, Embalmers, Prostitutes 158
Epilogue:
Transmission of Egyptian Medical Knowledge 179
Endmatter
Primary Sources for Egyptian Medicine 189
Interpreting the Ten Plagues of Egypt 197
Chronology of Ancient Egypt zo5
Notes 209
Works Cited 239
Illustration Credits 257
Acknowledgments z61
Index 263
by Bruno Halioua and Bernard Ziskind translated by M. B. DeBevoise
Harvard University Press, 2005 Cloth: 978-0-674-01702-3
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I * The World of the Physician
1 The Medical Profession 7
2 Training and Practice 2i
Part II - Revelations of Paleopathology
3 Mummification 43
4 The Modern Study of Mummies 53
Part III * From Cradle to Grave
5 Mothers and Children 69
6 Childhood and Adolescence 82
7 Old Age and Deformities 95
Part IV * Professional Risks
8 Fishermen and Farmers 115
9 Construction Workers, Miners, Soldiers I28
10 Bakers, Priests, Scribes, Embalmers, Prostitutes 158
Epilogue:
Transmission of Egyptian Medical Knowledge 179
Endmatter
Primary Sources for Egyptian Medicine 189
Interpreting the Ten Plagues of Egypt 197
Chronology of Ancient Egypt zo5
Notes 209
Works Cited 239
Illustration Credits 257
Acknowledgments z61
Index 263