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Here is a sampling of e-books available to UW-Green Bay students on the topic of ancient medicine. Use Search@UW to find other books and articles.
Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction by Call Number: Online AccessPublication Date: 2016An "account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease."
Plagues and Peoples by Call Number: Online AccessPublication Date: 1998Covers the influences of infectious diseases throughout history, organized chronologically.
Ancient Medicine by Call Number: Online AccessPublication Date: 2013Covers the "life and work of doctors in communities, links between medicine and magic, and examines the different approaches to medicine across the ancient world."
Death and Disease in the Ancient City by Call Number: Online AccessPublication Date: 2000Discusses "how people in the ancient world understood and dealt with illness and death in the urban environment."
Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire by Call Number: Online AccessPublication Date: 2015A comprehensive study of both patients and healers in the High Roman Empire.
