Ancient medicine

Sources and ScopePatterns 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 experi...

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1. Verfasser: Nutton, Vivian (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: London u.a. Routledge 2004
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Schriftenreihe:Series of antiquity
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Zusammenfassung:Sources and ScopePatterns 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.
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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIV, 486 S.
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ISBN:0415086116
0-415-08611-6