Ancient Medicine (Sciences of Antiquity Series) - Historical Medical Practices Book | Paperback Edition | Published December 7, 2012 | Perfect for Medical History Enthusiasts & Academic Research
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The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made since the first edition, especially from important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and manuscripts, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey available.Vivian Nutton pays particular attention to the life and work of doctors in communities, links between medicine and magic, and examines the different approaches to medicine across the ancient world. The new edition includes more on Rufus and Galen as well as augmented information on Babylonia, Hellenistic medicine and Late Antiquity.With recently discovered texts made accessible for the first time, and providing new evidence, this broad exploration challenges currently held perspectives, and proves an invaluable resource for students of both classics and the history of medicine.
Customer Reviews
Information concerning medical science during the period from about the fifth century BCE to about 500 Ce is found in many, many old texts that have been discovered that are written in Greek, Egyptian, Syriac, Arabic, and Latin, papyri, parts of writings on papyri, animal skins, etc., which just to "find" part of them involves a great investigative effort. Vivian Nutton has, in this text accomplished a great amount of research of the sources I've mentioned above, plus many more, so that he has been able to provide a well documented, and accurate analysis of the state of medical science, and how it evolved, over the period mentioned above. His effort, besides providing a thorough well-documented review of medical science and how it evolved, provides for the "interested reader, as well as for scholars, a thorough review and, at the same time, an in-depth, study of ancient medicine so that it decreases the effort that others have to expend to gain a thorough knowledge of the subject which it so thoroughly covers. I found it to be a very thorough and realistic expose' of medical science as it was understood and practiced during the above-mentioned time period especially the contribution of Hippocrates, Erasistratis and Galen.
