ISBN: | 9780203490914 |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Published: | 9 April, 2004 |
Format: | eBook - PDF |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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This is the first large-scale history of medicine in Antiquity to appear in a single volume for almost one hundred years. It combines archaeological evidence with written texts, and introduces many new medical texts that have survived only in medieval translations into Arabic. As well as telling the story of the development of medical ideas, from the early Greeks to the massive handbooks of Late Antiquity, it looks at the place of medicine in ancient society. Vivian Nutton explores the life and
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