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The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds has been updated to incorporate the many new discoveries made in the field over the last decade.
Ancient Medicine will remain the definitive textbook on the subject for students and scholars.
List of contents
1 Sources and scope; 2 Patterns of disease; 3 Before Hippocrates; 4 Hippocrates, the Hippocratic Corpus and the de¿ning of medicine; 5 `Hippocratic` theories; 6 `Hippocratic` practices; 7 Religion and medicine in ¿fth- and fourth-century Greece; 8 From Plato to Praxagoras; 9 Alexandria, anatomy and experimentation; 10 Hellenistic medicine; 11 Rome and the transplantation of Greek medicine; 12 The consequences of empire: pharmacology, surgery and the Roman army; 13 The rise of Methodism; 14 Humoral alternatives; 15 The life and career of Galen; 16 Galenic medicine; 17 All sorts and conditions of (mainly) men; 18 Medicine and the religions of the Roman Empire; 19 Medicine in the Later Roman Empire; 20 Conclusion;
Appendix 1 Editions and Translations of Ancient Medical Text;
Appendix 2 Chronological Table.
About the author
Vivian Nutton, FBA, is Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine at University College London. He has published extensively on all aspects of medicine before the seventeenth century. His most recent books include
Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome (Routledge, 2020) and
Renaissance Medicine (Routledge, 2022).
Summary
The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds has been updated to incorporate the many new discoveries made in the field over the last decade. Ancient Medicine will remain the definitive textbook on the subject for students and scholars.
