Ancient Histories of Medicine
Subtitle: Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity (Studies in Ancient Medicine)
Contributors: Ph. J. Van Der Eijk (Editor); Philip J. Van Der Eijk (Editor)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: October 1999
Language: eng; fre; ger
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 537
ISBN-13: 9789004105553
Subjects: Historiography; History Of Medicine; History of specific subjects; Medicine, Greek and Roman; History; Ancient World History; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Interior Design - General; Ancient - General; Authors, Greek; Authors, Latin
Description: "This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of medicine in the ancient world. Special attention is given to medical doxography, i.e. the description of the characteristic doctrines of the great medical authorities of the past."--BOOK JACKET.