Ancient medicine

by Nutton, Vivian

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Full title :Ancient medicine

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Publication Date:2013
Edition:2. edition

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Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013

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Indhold: Sources and scope. Patterns of disease. Before Hippocrates. Hippocrates, the Hippocratic Corpus and the defining of medicine. Hippocratic theories. Hippocratic practices. Religion and medicine in fifth- and fourth-century Greece. From Plato to Praxagoras. Alexandria, anatomy and experimentation. Hellenistic medicine. Rome and the transplantation of Greek medicine. The consequences of empire : pharmacology, surgery and the Roman army. The rise of Methodism. Humoral alternatives. The life and career of Galen. Galenic medicine. All sorts and conditions of (mainly) men. Medicine and the religions of the Roman Empire. Medicine in the Later Roman Empire