Ancient Medicine
By: Vivian Nutton
Series: Series of Antiquity
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 21, 2005
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780415368483
Copyright date: 2004
Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations
pagenum: vii; title: Note to the Reader
pagenum: ix; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xi; title: List of Abbreviations
pagenum: xiii; label: 1
title: Sources and scope
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Patterns of disease
pagenum: 19; label: 3
title: Before Hippocrates
pagenum: 37; label: 4
title: Hippocrates, the Hippocratic Corpus, and the defining of medicine
pagenum: 53; label: 5
title: Hippocratic theories
pagenum: 72; label: 6
title: Hippocratic practices
pagenum: 87; label: 7
title: Religion and medicine in fifth- and fourth-century Greece
pagenum: 103; label: 8
title: From Plato to Praxagoras
pagenum: 115; label: 9
title: Alexandria, anatomy, and experimentation
pagenum: 128; label: 10
title: Hellenistic medicine
pagenum: 140; label: 11
title: Rome and the transplantation of Greek medicine
pagenum: 157; label: 12
title: The consequences of empire: pharmacology, surgery and the Roman army
pagenum: 171; label: 13
title: The rise of Methodism
pagenum: 187; label: 14
title: Humoral alternatives
pagenum: 202; label: 15
title: The life and career of Galen
pagenum: 216; label: 16
title: Galenic medicine
pagenum: 230; label: 17
title: All sorts and conditions of (mainly) men
pagenum: 248; label: 18
title: Medicine and the religions of the Roman Empire
pagenum: 273; label: 19
title: Medicine in the Later Roman Empire
pagenum: 292; label: 20
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 310; title: Notes
pagenum: 317; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 419; title: Index of names
pagenum: 465; title: Index of topics
pagenum: 478