Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire Peter A. Rogerson Thelma Schorr

Thelma Schorr

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Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire Peter A. Rogerson Thelma SchorrPatients and Healers in the High Roman Empire offers a fascinating holistic look at the practice of ancient Roman medicine. Ido Irsaelowich presents three richly detailed case studiesone focusing on the home and reproduction; another on the army; the last on medical tourismfrom the point of view of those on both sides of the patient healer divide. He explains in depth how people in the classical world became aware of their ailments, what they believed