Ancient medicine / Vivian Nutton
By: Nutton, Vivian.
Series: Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2012Edition: Second edition.Description: xiv, 488 pages : maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415520959 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Medicine, Ancient | Physicians -- History | History, Ancient | Physicians -- historyGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 610| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | R135 .N88 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000005834 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-468) and index
Machine generated contents note: 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