The invention of medicine : from Homer to Hippocrates / Robin Lane Fox.
The invention of medicine : from Homer to Hippocrates / Robin Lane Fox.
The invention of medicine : from Homer to Hippocrates / Robin Lane Fox.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, 2020.
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G 2021/0366
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxvi, 404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Part one, Heroes to Hippocrates: Homeric healing -- Poetic sickness -- Traveling to doctors -- From Italy to Susa -- The Asclepiads -- Hippocrates, fact and fiction -- The Hippocratic Corpus -- The invention of medicine -- Part two, The Doctor's island: The Epidemic books -- 'On Thasos, during Autum...
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, 2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2020.
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Summary
"Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek doctor put forward his clinical observations of individual men, women, and children in a collection of case histories known as the Epidemics. Among his working principles was the famous maxim "D...
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The invention of medicine : from Homer to Hippocrates / Robin Lane Fox.
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"Originally published in 2020 by Allen Lane, Penguin Random House UK."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-397) and index.
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©2020
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G 2021/0366
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74VKaOxOO8rO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaOxOO8rO
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ISBN
0465093442
9780465093441
DDC
610.938
MMS ID
991024381212202626
