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Medicine and Empire in the Roman World

Medicine and Empire in the Roman World

Flemming, Rebecca

Paperback

Series: Key Themes in Ancient History

Ancient History General

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 30, 2026

ISBN10: 052169275X
ISBN13: 9780521692755
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 30 2026
Pages: 278
Language: English
This book explores relations between medicine and empire in the Roman world. It charts Rome's accumulation of medical resources in the Republic, bound up with the acquisition of territory and power, and then reveals the redistribution of those resources as part of the larger project of imperial consolidation after Augustus. It demonstrates the ways in which medicine - ideas and practices around health, disease and healing - supported the Roman imperial enterprise. From the medical care of large enslaved workforces and Roman armies to the hierarchies of medical practitioners in communities across the empire and the ordering of health and bodies. Rome was the medical and political capital of the Mediterranean. It was also the disease capital, and the integration of imperial territory by the second century CE not only established a unified (but not uniform) medical culture but also helped the spread of disease, culminating in the Antonine Plague.

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