The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465093441ISBN-10:465093442UPC:9780465093441Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Ancient, Medical (Incl. Patients), EuropeBook Topic:GreeceSize:9.30 x 5.70 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCZB5T7136
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates
A preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine.
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...
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465093441ISBN-10:465093442UPC:9780465093441Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Ancient, Medical (Incl. Patients), EuropeBook Topic:GreeceSize:9.30 x 5.70 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCZB5T7136
Robin Lane Fox is an emeritus fellow at New College, Oxford. He's the author of many books on ancient and classical history, including Augustine, Alexander the Great, and The Classical World, which was named one of the Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 2006 by the Washington Post Book World. He lives in Oxford, England.
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