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Ancient Medicine.
The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made since the first edition, especially from important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and manuscripts, making it...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Sciences of Antiquity Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- ANCIENT MEDICINE
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- NOTE TO THE READER
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- 1 SOURCES AND SCOPE
- 2 PATTERNS OF DISEASE
- 3 BEFORE HIPPOCRATES
- 4 HIPPOCRATES, THE HIPPOCRATIC CORPUS AND THE DEFINING OF MEDICINE
- 5 HIPPOCRATIC THEORIES
- 6 HIPPOCRATIC PRACTICES
- 7 RELIGION AND MEDICINE IN FIFTH-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
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX OF NAMES
- INDEX OF TOPICS