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Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome

Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome

Nutton, Vivian

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Ancient Biographies

PhilosophyMedical ReferenceAncient History General

ISBN10: 0367357224
ISBN13: 9780367357221
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 20 2020
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.56 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

This volume offers a comprehensive biography of the Roman physician Galen, and explores his activities and ideas as a doctor and intellectual, as well as his reception in later centuries.

Nutton's wide-ranging study surveys Galen's early life and medical education, as well as his later career in Rome and his role as court physician for over forty years. It examines Galen's philosophical approach to medicine and the body, his practices of prognosis and dissection, and his ideas about preventative medicine and drugs. A final chapter explores the continuing impact of Galen's work in the centuries after his death, from his pre-eminence in Islamic medicine to his resurgence in Western medicine in the Renaissance, and his continuing impact through to the nineteenth century even after the discoveries of Vesalius and Harvey.

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