Ancient medicine / Vivian Nutton.
- Nutton, Vivian.
- Date:
- 2004
- Books
- Online
About this work
Also known as
Ancient medicine (Online)
Ancient Medicine (Series of antiquity)
Publication/Creation
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Contributors
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-464) and indexes.
Type/Technique
Languages
Holdings
- 1 Jan. 2004 - 31 Dec. 2004
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780203490914 (online)
- 9780203598382 (online)
- 9781134884568 (online)
- 9781280036163 (online)