<![CDATA[The Book Company: New Products - History]]> https://www.thebookco.com Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:22:28 +0000 <![CDATA[The Image of Mesopotamian Divine Healers (Healing Goddesses and the Legitimization of Professional asûs in the Mesopotamian Medical Marketplace)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-image-of-mesopotamian-divine-healers-9789004512405 Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:35:40 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-image-of-mesopotamian-divine-healers-9789004512405 The Image of Mesopotamian Divine Healers (Healing Goddesses and the Legitimization of Professional asûs in the Mesopotamian Medical Marketplace) by Irene Sibbing-Plantholt, 9789004512405This volume exposes one of the world’s oldest medical marketplaces and the emergence of medical professionalization within it. Through an unprecedented analysis of the Mesopotamian healing goddesses as well as asûs, a diverse group of “healers”, Irene Sibbing-Plantholt demonstrates that fro..

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]]> The Image of Mesopotamian Divine Healers (Healing Goddesses and the Legitimization of Professional asûs in the Mesopotamian Medical Marketplace) by Irene Sibbing-Plantholt, 9789004512405This volume exposes one of the world’s oldest medical marketplaces and the emergence of medical professionalization within it. Through an unprecedented analysis of the Mesopotamian healing goddesses as well as asûs, a diverse group of “healers”, Irene Sibbing-Plantholt demonstrates that fro..

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]]> asûs, a diverse group of “healers”, Irene Sibbing-Plantholt demonstrates that fro..]]> <![CDATA[ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī's Health Regimen or “Book of the Pearl” (Arabic Text, English Translation, Introduction and Indices)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/al-ibn-sahl-rabban-a-abars-health-regimen-or-book-of-the-pearl-9789004445888 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:26:58 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/al-ibn-sahl-rabban-a-abars-health-regimen-or-book-of-the-pearl-9789004445888 ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī's Health Regimen or “Book of the Pearl” (Arabic Text, English Translation, Introduction and Indices) by Oliver Kahl, ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī, 9789004445888The Arabic treatise edited and translated here was written in the middle of the 9th century CE by ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī, a Christian convert to Islam and one of the most remarkable thinkers of his time. The text can be described as a manual towards the preservation of health, addressed di..

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]]> ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī's Health Regimen or “Book of the Pearl” (Arabic Text, English Translation, Introduction and Indices) by Oliver Kahl, ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī, 9789004445888The Arabic treatise edited and translated here was written in the middle of the 9th century CE by ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī, a Christian convert to Islam and one of the most remarkable thinkers of his time. The text can be described as a manual towards the preservation of health, addressed di..

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]]> <![CDATA[Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval: A Case for Constructive Pluralism (Second Revised and Expanded Edition)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/moral-conflicts-of-organ-retrieval-a-case-for-constructive-pluralism-9789004409569 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:06:05 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/moral-conflicts-of-organ-retrieval-a-case-for-constructive-pluralism-9789004409569 Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval: A Case for Constructive Pluralism (Second Revised and Expanded Edition) by Charles C. Hinkley II, 9789004409569In this revised edition of Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval: A Case for Constructive Pluralism, Charles Hinkley elaborates on his moral philosophy of constructive pluralism and updates the literature on organ retrieval strategies. Hinkley challenges a deeply entrenched moral triad: 1) mor..

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]]> Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval: A Case for Constructive Pluralism (Second Revised and Expanded Edition) by Charles C. Hinkley II, 9789004409569In this revised edition of Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval: A Case for Constructive Pluralism, Charles Hinkley elaborates on his moral philosophy of constructive pluralism and updates the literature on organ retrieval strategies. Hinkley challenges a deeply entrenched moral triad: 1) mor..

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]]> Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval: A Case for Constructive Pluralism, Charles Hinkley elaborates on his moral philosophy of constructive pluralism and updates the literature on organ retrieval strategies. Hinkley challenges a deeply entrenched moral triad: 1) mor..]]> <![CDATA[Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine 1-10]]> https://www.thebookco.com/studies-for-the-society-for-the-social-history-of-medicine-1-10-9781848934757 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:51:04 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/studies-for-the-society-for-the-social-history-of-medicine-1-10-9781848934757 Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine 1-10 by Jonathan Reinarz, Kevin Siena, 9781848934757Contains the first ten books from the series.

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]]> Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine 1-10 by Jonathan Reinarz, Kevin Siena, 9781848934757Contains the first ten books from the series.

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]]> <![CDATA[Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De indolentia) in Context (A Tale of Resilience)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/galens-treatise-9789004383289 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:13:22 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/galens-treatise-9789004383289 Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De indolentia) in Context (A Tale of Resilience) by Caroline Petit, 9789004383289This collective volume arises from a Wellcome-funded conference held at the University of Warwick in 2014 about the “new” Galen discovered in 2005 in a Greek manuscript, De indolentia. In the wake of the latest English translation published by Vivian Nutton in 2013, this book offers a multi..

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]]> Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De indolentia) in Context (A Tale of Resilience) by Caroline Petit, 9789004383289This collective volume arises from a Wellcome-funded conference held at the University of Warwick in 2014 about the “new” Galen discovered in 2005 in a Greek manuscript, De indolentia. In the wake of the latest English translation published by Vivian Nutton in 2013, this book offers a multi..

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]]> De indolentia. In the wake of the latest English translation published by Vivian Nutton in 2013, this book offers a multi..]]> <![CDATA[Galen's Theory of Black Bile (Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/galens-theory-of-black-bile-9789004382787 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:11:57 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/galens-theory-of-black-bile-9789004382787 Galen's Theory of Black Bile (Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation) by Keith Andrew Stewart, 9789004382787In Galen’s Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation Keith Stewart investigates Galen’s writing on black bile to explain health and disease and shows that Galen sometimes presented this humour as three substances with different properties that can either be harmf..

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]]> Galen's Theory of Black Bile (Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation) by Keith Andrew Stewart, 9789004382787In Galen’s Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation Keith Stewart investigates Galen’s writing on black bile to explain health and disease and shows that Galen sometimes presented this humour as three substances with different properties that can either be harmf..

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]]> Galen’s Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation Keith Stewart investigates Galen’s writing on black bile to explain health and disease and shows that Galen sometimes presented this humour as three substances with different properties that can either be harmf..]]> <![CDATA[Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times]]> https://www.thebookco.com/pain-and-pleasure-in-classical-times-9789004379497 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:04:06 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/pain-and-pleasure-in-classical-times-9789004379497 Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times by William V. Harris, 9789004379497Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced, managed and reasoned about the sensatio..

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]]> Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times by William V. Harris, 9789004379497Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced, managed and reasoned about the sensatio..

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]]> Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced, managed and reasoned about the sensatio..]]> <![CDATA[The Major Works of John Cotta (The Short Discovery (1612) and The Trial of Witchcraft (1616))]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-major-works-of-john-cotta-9789004367166 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:42:52 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-major-works-of-john-cotta-9789004367166 The Major Works of John Cotta (The Short Discovery (1612) and The Trial of Witchcraft (1616)) by Todd H.J. Pettigrew, Stephanie M. Pettigrew, Jacques A. Bailly, 9789004367166This volume presents, for the first time, a critical edition of the works of the early modern English physician John Cotta. No mere country doctor, Cotta spoke out eloquently and courageously against what he saw as abuses in medicine and injustices in the prosecution of witchcraft. Read by importa..

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]]> The Major Works of John Cotta (The Short Discovery (1612) and The Trial of Witchcraft (1616)) by Todd H.J. Pettigrew, Stephanie M. Pettigrew, Jacques A. Bailly, 9789004367166This volume presents, for the first time, a critical edition of the works of the early modern English physician John Cotta. No mere country doctor, Cotta spoke out eloquently and courageously against what he saw as abuses in medicine and injustices in the prosecution of witchcraft. Read by importa..

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]]> <![CDATA[Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine (From Celsus to Paul of Aegina)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/mental-illness-in-ancient-medicine-9789004362727 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:29:49 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/mental-illness-in-ancient-medicine-9789004362727 Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine (From Celsus to Paul of Aegina) by Chiara Thumiger, Peter Singer, 9789004362727In Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina a detailed account is given, by a range of experts in the field, of the development of different conceptualizations of the mind and its pathology by medical authors from the beginning of the imperial period to the seventh ..

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]]> Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine (From Celsus to Paul of Aegina) by Chiara Thumiger, Peter Singer, 9789004362727In Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina a detailed account is given, by a range of experts in the field, of the development of different conceptualizations of the mind and its pathology by medical authors from the beginning of the imperial period to the seventh ..

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]]> Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina a detailed account is given, by a range of experts in the field, of the development of different conceptualizations of the mind and its pathology by medical authors from the beginning of the imperial period to the seventh ..]]> <![CDATA[Theophrastus of Eresus: Commentary Volume 9.1 (Sources on Music (Texts 714-726C))]]> https://www.thebookco.com/theophrastus-of-eresus-commentary-volume-91-9789004362277 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:29:04 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/theophrastus-of-eresus-commentary-volume-91-9789004362277 Theophrastus of Eresus: Commentary Volume 9.1 (Sources on Music (Texts 714-726C)) by Massimo Raffa, 9789004362277Among the many subjects on which Theophrastus wrote, music is one of the most fascinating, as is testified by the sources discussed in this volume. Although scanty, the material we have—sixteen texts altogether, most of which are indirect testimonies—gives an idea of the originality and modernity ..

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]]> Theophrastus of Eresus: Commentary Volume 9.1 (Sources on Music (Texts 714-726C)) by Massimo Raffa, 9789004362277Among the many subjects on which Theophrastus wrote, music is one of the most fascinating, as is testified by the sources discussed in this volume. Although scanty, the material we have—sixteen texts altogether, most of which are indirect testimonies—gives an idea of the originality and modernity ..

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