Ancient Medicine

Name: Ancient Medicine
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ISBN: 9780415520959

ISBN-10: 0415520959

ISBN-13: 9780415520959

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Vivian Nutton

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Available for the first time in paperback, this first large-scale, sole-authored history of ancient medicine for almost 100 years uses both archaeological and written evidence to survey the development of medical ideas from early Greece to late Antiquity.Vivian Nutton pays particular attention to the life and work of doctors in the communities, links between medicine and magic, and examines the different approaches to medicine across the ancient world.With many texts made accessible for the first time, and providing new evidence, this broad exploration challenges usual perspectives, and proves an invaluable resource for students of both classics and the history of medicine.

Book details

List price: $42.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English



List of illustrations


Note to the reader


Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations



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



Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index of navies


Index of topics