Ancient medicine

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nutton, Vivian (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London [etc.] : Routledge 2004.
Colección:Sciences of antiquity
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Acceso en línea:Sumario
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.