Ancient medicine / Vivian Nutton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nutton, Vivian.

Series:

Sciences of antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Ancient.

Physicians--History.

Physicians.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 488 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. This 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 includes mote on Rufus and Galen as well as further information on Babylonia, Hellenistic medicine and Late Antiquity.

With recently discovered texts made accessible for the first time, and providing new evidence, this broad exploration challenges currently held perspectives, and proves an invaluable resource for students of both classics and the history of medicine. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Sources and scope 1

2 Patterns of disease 19

3 Before Hippocrates 37

4 Hippocrates, the Hippocratic Corpus and the defining of medicine 53

5 Hippocratic theories 72

6 Hippocratic practices 87

7 Religion and medicine in fifth- and fourth-century Greece 104

8 From Plato to Praxagoras 116

9 Alexandria, anatomy and experimentation 130

10 Hellenistic medicine 142

11 Rome and the transplantation of Greek medicine 160

12 The consequences of empire: pharmacology, surgery and the Roman army 174

13 The rise of Methodism 191

14 Humoral alternatives 207

15 The life and career of Galen 222

16 Galenic medicine 236

17 All sorts and conditions of (mainly) men 254

18 Medicine and the religions of the Roman Empire 280

19 Medicine in the Later Roman Empire 299

20 Conclusion 318.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415520942

0415520940

9780415520959

0415520959

9780203081297

0203081293

OCLC:

795687168