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Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE) is written by Kristi Upson-Saia and published by Univ of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520299701 (ISBN 10) and 9780520299702 (ISBN 13).
"This sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome. It includes a wide-ranging collection of textual sources - many hard to access, and some translated into English for the first time - as well as artistic, material, and scientific evidence. Introductory chapters and accompanying commentary provide substantial context, making the sourcebook accessible to readers at all levels. Readers will come away with a broad sense of the illnesses people in ancient Greece and Rome experienced, the range of healers from whom they sought help, and the various practices they employed to be healthy"--