Egyptian mummies and modern science
| Weitere Verfasser: |
David, A. Rosalie
, [HerausgeberIn]
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Ausgabe: | Reprint of first paperback editon 2014. |
| Umfang/Format: |
xxi, 304 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- PART 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF MUMMIES
- The Background of the Manchester Mummy Project / ROSALIE DAVID
- Egyptian Mummies: An Overview / ROSALIE DAVID
- PART 2: DIET, DISEASE AND DEATH IN ANCIENT EGYPT: DIAGNOSTIC AND INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES
- Imaging in Egyptian Mummies / JUDITH E. ADAMS AND CHRISSIE W. ALSOP
- Endoscopy and Mummy Research / KEN WILDSMITH
- Dental Health and Disease in Ancient Egypt / JUDITH MILLER
- Slices of Mummy: A Histologist's Perspective / JOHN DENTON
- Palaeopathology at the Beginning of the New Millennium : a review of the literature / MARIA JEZIORSKA
- The Use of Immunocytochemistry to Diagnose Disease in mummies / PATRICIA RUTHERFORD
- DNA Identification in Mummies and Associated Material / PATRICIA RUTHERFORD
- An Introduction to Analytical Methods / ANDREW P. GIZE
- The Facial Reconstruction of Ancient Egyptians / CAROLINE M. WILKINSON
- PART 3: THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE IN ANCIENT EGYPT
- The Ancient Egyptian Medical System / ROSALIE DAVID
- Intoxicants in Ancient Egypt? Opium, Nymphea, Coca and Tobacco / DAVID J. COUNSELL
- Pharmacy in Ancient Egypt / JACQUELINE M. CAMPBELL
- PART 4: RESOURCES FOR STUDYING MUMMIES
- The International Ancient Egyptian Mummy Tissue Bank / ROSALIE DAVID
- Conservation Treatment for Mummies / ANTONY E. DAVID
- PART 5: THE FUTURE OF BIOMEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC STUDIES IN EGYPTOLOGY
- Biomedical Egyptology: Some Future Possibilities and Contributions / ROSALIE DAVID.
