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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nutton, Vivian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series:Sciences of antiquity.
Subjects:
History, Ancient.
Physicians > history.
Table of Contents:
  • 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