Title: Galen and the rhetoric of healing
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: Ancient History, Biography, Greek World, Greek and Roman Medicine, History, History of Medicine, History, Ancient, Medical Philosophy, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Philosophy, Medical, Physician and patient, Physicians, Roman World, Galen, Medicine, greek and roman, Physicians, biography, History, ancient, Medicine, philosophy, Rome, biography, Greece, biography
People: Galen
LC classification: R126.G8 M38 2008