Table of Contents

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 Later Roman Empire. Medicine in the Later Roman Empire

Reviews

"Nutton provides a good template for a companion volume covering ancient medicine in other parts of the world."
Diverse Roots Even Only in the West
-Geoffrey Lloyd, "Books History of Medicine, 06/2005
"A masterful evaluation of health and disease within the long millenium from Homer to Oribasius."
-"The Times Higher Education Supplement