Ancient medicine / Vivian Nutton.
Ancient medicine / Vivian Nutton.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N610.93/2
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English
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xiv, 486 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Sources and scope -- 2. Patterns of disease -- 3. Before Hippocrates -- 4. Hippocrates, and 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. A...
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Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
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England
Date Published
2004.
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Summary
"Many of the texts cited are here made accessible for the first time, as they have previously only been available in medieval translations into Arabic. The book does not just provide new evidence to back up the standard arguments; it also argues for a change of perspective. By refusing to take Hippocratic medicine as the universal standard of ancie...
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Ancient medicine / Vivian Nutton.
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Sciences of antiquity.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N610.93/2
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74VKPjQl8gp3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKPjQl8gp3
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ISBN
0415086116 (Hardback : alk. paper)
9780415086110 (Hardback : alk. paper)
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610.93
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991019743379702626
