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Free Download de Carvalho, "From Antiquity to the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Intellectual Property of Medicines and Access to Health – A Sourcebook"
English | ISBN: 9403528508 | 2020 | 376 pages | PDF | 15 MB
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the tensions inherent in the interface of proprietary medicines and the strong reaction of society at large in respect of pharmaceutical inventors and rights holders. As this comprehensive collection of sources shows, these tensions have persisted since ancient times. The sources-along with headnotes and a deeply informed preamble-clearly illustrate how society has constructed intellectual property in association with medicines to adapt it to the needs of entrepreneurship and free trade, and, at the same time, accommodating it to the imperatives of public health.

Free Download Peter Garnsey, "Food and Society in Classical Antiquity"
English | 2008 | pages: 191 | ISBN: 0521641829, 0521645883, 0511059914 | PDF | 4,8 mb
This is a broad-based, comprehensive general study of food in antiquity. The book deals with food as food or nutrition, the discussion revolving around the concrete issues of food availability and the nutritional status of the population. It also treats the nonfood uses of food, focusing on the role of food in forming and marking the social hierarchy. Food defines the group, whether social, religious, philosophical or political.

Free Download Egert Pöhlmann, "Ancient Music in Antiquity and Beyond: Collected Essays"
English | 2020 | pages: 322 | ASIN: B08DMMYWHD | PDF | 7,5 mb
Seit der Renaissance bemüht sich die Altertumswissenschaft um die Wiedergewinnung der antiken Musik, die erst durch Papyrusfunde des 19. und 20. Jh.s wieder wirklich greifbar geworden ist. Der vorliegende Band mit ausgewählten Schriften von Egert Pöhlmann beleuchtet diverse Bereiche, die in diesen Prozess der Wiedergewinnung einfließen, darunter eine Abhandlung zur Oralen Tradition griechischer Musik bei Ps.Plutarch, Aufsätze zur Musik in den Werken des Aristophanes, eine Abhandlung zu den ambrosianischen Hymnen und dem Einfluss römischer Musik in der Spätantike sowie auch eine Schrift zur Tradition antiker griechischer Musik im Mittelalter und in der Renaissance. Somit bildet diese Sammlung einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Fortleben der antiken Musik und Literatur.

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by Dames, Nicholas;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0691135193 | 385 pages | True PDF EPUB | 41.61 MB

Free Download History of Science: Antiquity to 1700 by The Great Courses, Lawrence M. Principe
English | 2013 | ISBN: B00DTNW5HG | 18 hours and 31 minutes | MP3 32 kbps | 286 Mb
For well over 2,000 years, much of our fundamental "desire to know" has focused on science. Our commitment to science and technology has been so profound that these stand as probably the most powerful influences on human culture. To truly understand our Western heritage, our contemporary society, and ourselves as individuals, we need to know what science is and how it developed.
In this 36-lecture series, one of science’s most acclaimed teachers takes you through science’s complex evolution of thought and discovery, often originating from ideas that by today’s technological perspective might be considered ridiculous or humorous, although many are still relevant today. You’ll consider science’s often fascinating history, from ancient times to the Scientific Revolution, in terms of several penetrating questions, including two of special importance: Who pursued science, and why? What happened, and why?

Free Download Lieve Van Hoof, Peter Van Nuffelen, "The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300-620): Edition, Translation and Commentary"
English | 2020 | pages: 342 | ISBN: 1108420273 | PDF | 2,7 mb
The first systematic collection of fragmentary Latin historians from the period AD 300-620, this volume provides an edition and translation of, and commentary on, the fragments. It proposes new interpretations of the fragments and of the works from which they derive, whilst also spelling out what the fragments add to our knowledge of Late Antiquity. Integrating the fragmentary material with the texts preserved in full, the volume suggests new ways to understand the development of history writing in the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

Free Download The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy (Hellenistic Culture and Society) edited by R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé
English | August 14, 1996 | ISBN: 0520216458, 0520204492 | True PDF | 465 pages | 28.8 MB
This collection of essays―the first of its kind in English―brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The essays give a history of the movement as well as a state-of-the-art account of the literary, philosophical and cultural significance of Cynicism from antiquity to the present.

Free Download Monika Amsler, "Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity "
English | ISBN: 3110997630 | 2023 | 280 pages | EPUB | 34 MB
Social Studies of the sciences have long analyzed and exposed the constructed nature of knowledge. Pioneering studies of knowledge production in laboratories (e.g., Latour/Woolgar 1979; Knorr-Cetina 1981) have identified factors that affect processes that lead to the generation of scientific data and their subsequent interpretation, such as money, training and curriculum, location and infrastructure, biography-based knowledge and talent, and chance. More recent theories of knowledge construction have further identified different forms of knowledge, such as tacit, intuitive, explicit, personal, and social knowledge. These theoretical frameworks and critical terms can help reveal and clarify the processes that led to ancient data gathering, information and knowledge production.

Free Download Monika Amsler, "Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity "
English | ISBN: 3110997630 | 2023 | 280 pages | PDF | 25 MB
Social Studies of the sciences have long analyzed and exposed the constructed nature of knowledge. Pioneering studies of knowledge production in laboratories (e.g., Latour/Woolgar 1979; Knorr-Cetina 1981) have identified factors that affect processes that lead to the generation of scientific data and their subsequent interpretation, such as money, training and curriculum, location and infrastructure, biography-based knowledge and talent, and chance. More recent theories of knowledge construction have further identified different forms of knowledge, such as tacit, intuitive, explicit, personal, and social knowledge. These theoretical frameworks and critical terms can help reveal and clarify the processes that led to ancient data gathering, information and knowledge production.

Free Download Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1316514668 | 347 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
This innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity. It examines the conception of the body and bodily processes in mechanical terms in ancient medical writings, and looks into how artificial bodies and automata were equally configured in human terms; it also investigates how this knowledge applied to the treatment of the disabled and the diseased in the ancient world. The volume examines the pre-history of what develops, at a later stage, and more specifically during the early modern period, into the full science of iatromechanics in the context of which the human body was treated as a machine and medical treatments were devised accordingly. The volume facilitates future dialogue between scholars working on different areas, from classics, history and archaeology to history of science, philosophy and technology.