Medicine and Space—Body, Surroundings and Borders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

The papers in this collection were presented at the 2007 Anglo Dutch Wellcome Symposium--Medicine and Space: Bodies, Buildings, and Other Borders, or were commissioned to augment the selections. Each has been subjected to blind review and offers insight on the relationship between space and medicine during Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The 12 papers are grouped in sections on spaces of anatomy, the body of space, surroundings, and hospitals and architecture, and a sampling of topics includes fistulas, the knee and the 'three-dimensional' body; medieval Islamic hospitals; liminaltiy and disability; and the organs of generation in seventeenth-century English medicine. A large section of high quality gloss plates, some in color, complement the text. The contributors are academics in the fields of ancient medicine, classical studies, and medieval history from European and US universities. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Patricia A. Baker, Ph.D. (2001) in Classics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, is now a lecturer in Classics and Archaeology at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She has published widely on Roman medicine in particular the Roman army and the material culture of medicine.Han Nijdam, Ph.D. (2008) in Humanities, Leiden University, is coordinator for Old Frisian and the Frisian Language Database at the Fryske Akademy (KNAW), Leeuwarden, Netherlands. He has published on various aspects of Old Frisian law, particularly on embodied honour and revenge.Karine van 't Land is a historian and physician affiliated to the Department of History of the Radboud University Nijmegen. She is currently writing a Ph.D. dissertation on the theme of nutrition and identity in late medieval university medicine.