Medical Archaeology

New directions in the archaeology of medicine: deep …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2018.1574393

Towards an integrated archaeology of medicine and healthcare. The maintenance of human health and the mechanisms by which this is achieved – through medicine, medical intervention and care-giving – are fundamentals of human societies. …

Medical Anthropology | Department of Anthropology

https://anthropology.stanford.edu/research/medical-anthropology

Medical anthropology is the study of how health and illness are shaped, experienced, and understood in the context of cultural, historical, and political forces. It is one of …

The Birth of the Clinic - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_the_Clinic

Medicine in the Ancient World - Biblical …

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/daily-life-and-practice/medicine-in-the-ancient-world/

Life in the ancient world was risky business. The perils of war, disease, famine and childbirth are a just a few examples …

Medical anthropology - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_anthropology

Archaeological Perspectives toward Medicine and Global Health

https://core.tdar.org/collection/65039/archaeological-perspectives-toward-medicine-and-global-health

Archaeology, as both a methodological approach and an analytical framework, has a unique potential to contribute to these efforts. In particular, collaborations with the …

An Introduction to Medical Anthropology

https://www.thoughtco.com/medical-anthropology-4171750

Updated on September 21, 2018. Medical anthropology is a field of anthropology focused on the relationship between health, illness, and culture. Beliefs and practices about health …

Expedition Magazine - Penn Museum

https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/medical-archaeology-in-philadelphia/

Between 1902 and 1912, dates which straddle the suggested dates for the deposition of the Bartram’s Garden bottles, production of patent medicines in the United States increased by sixty percent (Stage …

Medical Anthropology | Department of Anthropology

https://anthropology.sas.upenn.edu/subfield/medical-anthropology

Medical Anthropology | Department of Anthropology Medical Anthropology Frances Barg Professor, Perelman School of Medicine. Associated Faculty, Anthropology Courses …

An Archaeology of Marijuana – SAPIENS

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/archaeology-marijuana/

Stephen E. Nash is a historian of science and an archaeologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He studies a wide range of subjects, including …