Ancient medicine
The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made since the first edition, especially from important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and manuscripts, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey available.Vivian Nutton pays particular attention to the life and work of doctors in communities, links between medicine and magic, and examines the diff…
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- Full title :Ancient medicine / Vivian Nutton.
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The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made since the first edition, especially from important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and manuscripts, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey available.Vivian Nutton pays particular attention to the life and work of doctors in communities, links between medicine and magic, and examines the different approaches to medicine across the ancient world. The new edition includ.
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- Publication Date:©2013
- Edition:Second edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiv, 488 pages) : : maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780203081297, 0203081293, 9781136172779, 1136172777, 9781283919579, 1283919575, 9781136172724, 1136172726, 9781136172762, 1136172769
- oclc:ocn823170112
- LC Classification:R135
- Dewey Decimal:610
Table of Contents
1. Sources and scope -- 2. Patterns of disease -- 3. Before Hippocrates -- 4. Hippocrates, the Hippocratic Corpus and the defining of medicine -- 5. Hippocratic theories -- 6. Hippocratic practices -- 7. Religion and medicine in fifth- and fourth-century Greece -- 8. From Plato to Praxagoras -- 9. Alexandria, anatomy and experimentation -- 10. Hellenistic medicine -- 11. Rome and the transplantation of Greek medicine -- 12. The consequences of empire: pharmacology, surgery and the Roman army -- 13. The rise of Methodism -- 14. Humoral alternatives -- 15. The life and career of Galen -- 16. Galenic medicine -- 17. All sorts and conditions of (mainly) men -- 18. Medicine and the religions of the Roman Empire -- 19. Medicine in the Later Roman Empire -- 20. Conclusion.
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