The invention of medicine : from Homer to Hippocrates / Robin Lane Fox.

"Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek doctor put forward his clinical observations of individual men, women, and children in a collection of case histories known as the Epidemics. Am...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lane Fox, Robin, 1946- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2020.
Edition:First US edition.
Subjects:
Hippocrates.
Medicine, Greek and Roman > History.
Medicine > History.
Medicine.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxvi, 404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part one, Heroes to Hippocrates: Homeric healing
  • Poetic sickness
  • Traveling to doctors
  • From Italy to Susa
  • The Asclepiads
  • Hippocrates, fact and fiction
  • The Hippocratic Corpus
  • The invention of medicine
  • Part two, The Doctor's island: The Epidemic books
  • 'On Thasos, during Autumn...'
  • The Thasian context
  • Building blocks of history
  • Art, sport and office-holding
  • Sex and street life
  • Patients of quality
  • Part three, The doctor's mind
  • By the bedside
  • Filtered reality
  • Retrospective diagnosis
  • Philosophers and dramatists
  • Epidemics and history
  • Hippocratic impact
  • From Thasos to Tehran.