Ancient medicine

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Combining archaeological evidence with the witness of written texts, Vivian Nutton offers a detailed history of medicine & medical knowledge in the ancient world.

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Full title :Ancient medicine / Vivian Nutton.

Summary

Combining archaeological evidence with the witness of written texts, Vivian Nutton offers a detailed history of medicine & medical knowledge in the ancient world.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 488 pages : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415520942, 0415520940, 9780415520959, 0415520959, 9780203081297, 0203081293
oclc:ocn830629886
LC Classification:R135
Dewey Decimal:610

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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Antike Griechenland Health and Fitness History HISTORY -- Ancient Médecine ancienne Médecins -- histoire Medicine, Ancient Medizin Physicians Physicians -- history Römisches Reich