Medicine - Antiquity and Its Legacy

Klappentext Discussing topics such as medical ethics! diagnostic explanations of illness and disease! matters of sex and gender! the ancient division between body and soul! interpretations of madness and melancholia! and methods of medical teaching and dissemination! the author draws fascinating parallels between the ancient! early modern and modern periods. Zusammenfassung Discussing topics such as medical ethics! diagnostic explanations of illness and disease! matters of sex and gender! the ancient division between body and soul! interpretations of madness and melancholia! and methods of medical teaching and dissemination! the author draws fascinating parallels between the ancient! early modern and modern periods.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Petit
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.05.2016, delayed
• EAN: 9781845118464
• ISBN: 978-1-84511-846-4
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Ancients and Moderns; Ancients and Moderns
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General