Ancient medicine / Vivian Nutton.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nutton, Vivian
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Edition:	Second edition.
Series:	Sciences of antiquity.
Subjects:	Medicine, Ancient. Physicians > History. History, Ancient. Physicians > history. Physicians. Antike. Medizin. Griechenland. Römisches Reich. History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	xiv, 488 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Format:	Book

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.