Vivian Nutton (UK University College London)

Ancient Medicine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 improves upon the last by including the key discoveries since the first edition, especially from the important texts from recent papyri finds.

Produktdetails

• Sciences of Antiquity
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 828g
• ISBN-13: 9780415520959
• ISBN-10: 0415520959
• Artikelnr.: 36137736

Autorenporträt

Vivian Nutton, FBA, is Professor emeritus of the History of Medicine at University College London, and an honorary Professor in both Classics and History at the university of Warwick. He has published extensively on all aspects on medicine before the seventeenth century, and in particular on Galen and the Renaissance.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Later Roman Empire. Medicine in the Later Roman Empire