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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786074703321

Autore

Nutton Vivian

Titolo

Ancient medicine / / Vivian Nutton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-17276-9

1-283-91957-5

0-203-08129-3

1-136-17277-7

Edizione

[2nd edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (505 p.)

Collana

Sciences of antiquity

Disciplina

610

Soggetti

Medicine, Ancient

Physicians - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; ANCIENT MEDICINE; Copyright; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; NOTE TO THE READER; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 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 METHODISM14 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; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF NAMES; INDEX OF TOPICS

Sommario/riassunto

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 includes the key discoveries made since the first



edition, especially from important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and manuscripts, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey available.Vivian Nutton pays particular attention to the life and work of doctors in communities, links between medicine and magic, and examines the different approaches to medicine across the ancient world. The new edition includ