Healing and medicine in the Aegean Bronze Age

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 265-270

  Arnott, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Minoans; Mycenaeans; Palaeopathology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EGYPT; GREECE; HEALING; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE EAST; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0029994798     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014107689608900508     Document Type: Article

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