Galen : a thinking doctor in imperial Rome /

Galen : a thinking doctor in imperial Rome /

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Author / Creator:	Nutton, Vivian, author.
Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. ©2020
Description:	xi, 209 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge ancient biographies
Subject:	Galen. Galen. Physicians -- Rome -- Biography. Physicians -- Greece -- Biography. Medicine, Greek and Roman -- History. Medicine, Greek and Roman. Physicians. Greece. Rome (Empire) History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12393642

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ISBN:	9780367357221 0367357224 9780367357238 0367357232 9780429341380
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 19th century even after the discoveries of Vesalius and Harvey. Galen is the definitive biography this fascinating figure, written by the preeminent Galen scholar, and offers an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Galen and his work, and the history of medicine more broadly"--
Other form:	Online version: Nutton, Vivian. Galen Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9780429341380

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