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The Ancient Evidentiary Foundations
This chapter discusses the historiography, available ancient evidence, and ongoing scholarly debates regarding the Plague of Cyprian. It is from this...
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Modeling an Ancient Zoonotic Outbreak
This chapter uses modeling and a multidisciplinary overlay of ancient and modern evidence to focus on the challenging problem of the Plague of...
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The Ancient Mariner
This chapter explores Polynesian voyaging debates, framed by the Hōkūle ‘a canoe voyages of the 1970s, deep histories of Māori Great Fleet...
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Conclusion: ‘The Most Protean Disease’
Modern Flu traces how a new approach to the question—what is influenza?—was fashioned in the first half of the twentieth century at the interface of...
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Medical Reactions to a New Disease (The Eighteenth Century)
In this chapter, we explore reactions to pellagra as a new disease and the character of the medical debates that ensued. If pellagra in Italy can be...
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The Astronomy in Ancient China: An Overview
This chapter gives detail information on the special position, societal functions and properties of the study of heaven in ancient Chinese culture....
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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: An Ancient Greek Case Study in Retrospective Diagnosis
Within socio-military history, the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder has aroused a lot of attention, with many scholars claiming its...
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The Ancient Chinese Thoughts on World Geography
This chapter talks about ancient Chinese people’s cognition of Earth, the land we live on, and important concepts entailing their views of world...
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Selected Works of Natural History in Ancient China
Natural history is closely linked to the livelihood of the people. Development level of natural history in a society can be inferred from the...
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Overview of Ancient Geoscience and Views of Geological Disasters and Abnormalities
This chapter focuses on the development of geoscience in ancient China and the understanding and researches of geological disasters and abnormal...
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Ancient Chinese Food Technology and Food Materials
We all enjoy eating food naturally. For decades, many experts and scholars have studied the history of Chinese food and yielded fruitful results....
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Pests, Plagues and Pastoral Husbandry: Representing Ovine Disease in Early Modern England
From an ecocritical perspective, the study of ovineOvine diseaseDisease in early modern England allows us to call into question the ‘naturalNatural’...
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India’s Oceanic Circulations: Textiles, Crops, Animals, Disease and More
When we think of India’s oceanic circulations, trade comes first to our mind, and our perception of India’s trade is heavily weighted in favour of...
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Exploration of Modeled Urban Epidemiology Concluded and Analysis of the Contrasting Epidemiological Situation in the Imperial Countryside
This chapter is devoted to more detailed macro and micro-modeling of the Plague of Cyprian’s urban epidemiology—including consideration of overall...
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The Limits of the Imagination
One of the obstacles to the acceptance of therapeutic hypnotism by the Victorian medical profession was an explanation for its mode of action. The...
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Theorizing Food and Power in the Ancient Andes
Studying what ancient peoples ate is critical to understanding fundamental aspects of culture, and the analysis of archaeological sites and remains...
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A Most Difficult Source and the Relevance of Climatic Circumstances
This chapter begins with a detailed analysis of argument, counter-interpretation, and rebuttal regarding a key, and highly controversial source...
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Prehistory (>2700 bce): Ancient Invention
Not only has prehistory failed to leave us with written records, it has also failed to leave us with any clear sign of who—male or female—first...
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