{"product_id":"body-and-machine-in-classical-antiquity-paperback-softback-9781009088060","title":"Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009088060","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBody and Machine in Classical Antiquity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaria Gerolemou (Edited by), George Kazantzidis (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009088060, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e346 pages, 8 b\/w illus.  14 colour illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.561 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This is a very original collection of essays that shows how cross-disciplinary thinking - which is now believed to be a creation of the present-day world, science, and research - was already a productive instrument for investigation in classical antiquity. The point is not the anteriority, but the originality of the ancient thinking and the productivity of a type of thinking that crosses the borders of traditional ways of working. In this way, antiquity created an interesting model for the understanding of the human machine that allowed for efficacious applications. This is the merit of this book, to bring this to light in a compelling case, as well written as documented and, more than anything, pleasant to read.' Alain Touwaide, Doody's Reviews\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity. It examines the conception of the body and bodily processes in mechanical terms in ancient medical writings, and looks into how artificial bodies and automata were equally configured in human terms; it also investigates how this knowledge applied to the treatment of the disabled and the diseased in the ancient world. The volume examines the pre-history of what develops, at a later stage, and more specifically during the early modern period, into the full science of iatromechanics in the context of which the human body was treated as a machine and medical treatments were devised accordingly. The volume facilitates future dialogue between scholars working on different areas, from classics, history and archaeology to history of science, philosophy and technology.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Blended Bodies: 1. More than a thing: figuring hybridity in archaic poetry and art Deborah Steiner\u003cbr\u003e 2. Automata, cyborgs, and hybrids: bodies and machines in Antiquity Jane Draycott\u003cbr\u003e 3. Not yet the android: the limits of wonder in ancient automata Isabel A. Ruffell\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Technological Body: 4. Technical physicians and medical machines in the Hippocratic Corpus Maria Gerolemou\u003cbr\u003e 5. The empirical, art, and science in Hippocrates' On Joints Jean De Groot\u003cbr\u003e 6. Hippocrates' Diseases 4 and the technological body Colin Webster\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Towards the Mechanization of the Human Body: 7. Aristotle on the lung and the bellows-lungs analogy Giuli Korobili\u003cbr\u003e 8. The ill effect of south winds on the joints in the human body: Theophrastus, De ventis 56 and pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata 1.24 Robert Mayhew\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Beauty that lies within\u003cbr\u003e Anatomy, mechanics and thauma in Hellenistic Medicine George Kazantzidis\u003cbr\u003e 10. The mechanics of the heart in Antiquity Matteo Valleriani\u003cbr\u003e 11. The mechanics of Galen's Theory of Nutrition Orly Lewis\u003cbr\u003e 12. Iatromechanism and Antiquarianism in Morgagni's Studies on Celsus, 1720–1761 Marquis Berrey.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of medicine [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of medicine\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20medicine%20%5BMBX%5D%22\"\u003eMBX\u003c\/a\u003e], Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Western%20philosophy:%20Ancient,%20to%20c%20500%20%5BHPCA%5D%22\"\u003eHPCA\u003c\/a\u003e], Classical history \/ classical civilisation [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Classical history \/ classical civilisation\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Classical%20history%20\/%20classical%20civilisation%20%5BHBLA1%5D%22\"\u003eHBLA1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52410772652312,"sku":"9781009088060","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009088060i.jpg?v=1784252106","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/body-and-machine-in-classical-antiquity-paperback-softback-9781009088060","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}