Galen and the rhetoric of healing
By: Susan P. Mattern.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780801888359
Subjects: Galen; Galen; Medicine, Greek and Roman; Physician and patient -- History; Physicians -- Biography; Greek World -- Biography; History of Medicine; History, Ancient; Philosophy, Medical -- history; Physicians -- history; Roman World -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The most important physician of the Roman imperial era, Galen introduced theories and practices that remained the basis for medical knowledge for centuries after his death. Some - such as the method of checking a patient's pulse - are still used today. He also left a vast corpus of writings, which makes up a full one-eighth of all surviving ancient Greek literature. Through her readings of hundreds of Galen's case histories, Susan P. Mattern presents the first systematic investigation of Galen's clinical practice in its social contexts."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-268) and index.