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
Vivian Nutton, FBA, is Professor emeritus of the History of Medicine at University College London, and an honorary Professor in both Classics and History at the university of Warwick. He has published extensively on all aspects on medicine before the seventeenth century, and in particular on Galen and the Renaissance.
Praise for the first edition (2004):'A worthy enterprise ... The
result is a masterful evaluation of health and disease ... Galen
would have been pleased.' – W.F Bynum, The Times Higher Education
Supplement'[A] near-masterpiece, Ancient Medicine is a huge quarry,
fit for mining and exploitation by those who have the proper
equipment.' – BMCR'This is an impressive piece of research. It will
. . . serve both as introduction and as comprehensive guide for
generations of scholars interested in the development of medical
ideas from early Greece to late antiquity . . . This book is an
essential tool for anyone interested in the history of Western
medicine.' - Biblical Theology Bulletin
"It is difficult to find a scholar with more expertise in
Greco-Roman medical texts than Nutton, or as much historical
breadth and range. Indeed, this is the only book available in
English that offers a comprehensive survey of the long and complex
tradition of Greek medicine from its earliest periods to the end of
the Roman empire... Nutton masterfully guides the reader through
the massive amount of literary, scientific, philosophical and
material evidence, constructing a coherent and compelling narrative
of the often heroic attempts of ancient doctors to understand and
treat disease. The new edition will be essential as a starting
point for all serious students of Greek and Roman medicine." –
Ralph M. Rosen, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
"The first edition of Vivian Nutton’s Ancient Medicine (2004) is
already established as the most authoritative, and expansive,
synthetic treatment of the subject available... This new edition is
motivated by the recent discovery, and/or publication, of new
evidence to add to this rich picture, as well as the continued
development of the scholarly field more broadly. All of this is
encompassed in Nutton’s new edition, from the items that have made
a big splash, to those that have more stealthily crept up on us...
None of this changes the basic pattern which Nutton outlines, all
can be incorporated into his basic narrative, but this is still an
even richer, and more complex, version of that story: the new
edition is even more authoritative as a result." - Rebecca
Flemming, University of Cambridge, UK.
Praise for the first edition (2004):
'A worthy enterprise ... The result is a masterful evaluation of
health and disease ... Galen would have been pleased.' – W.F Bynum,
The Times Higher Education Supplement
'[A] near-masterpiece, Ancient Medicine is a huge quarry, fit for
mining and exploitation by those who have the proper equipment.' –
BMCR
'This is an impressive piece of research. It will . . . serve both
as introduction and as comprehensive guide for generations of
scholars interested in the development of medical ideas from early
Greece to late antiquity . . . This book is an essential tool for
anyone interested in the history of Western medicine.' - Biblical
Theology Bulletin
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