The invention of medicine : from Homer to Hippocrates
| 1. Verfasser: |
Lane Fox, Robin, 1946-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York :
Basic Books,
2020.
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| Ausgabe: | First US Edition. |
| Umfang/Format: |
xxvi, 404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Part one, Heroes to Hippocrates: Homeric healing
- Poetic sickness
- Travelling doctors
- From Italy to Susa
- The Asclepiads
- Hippocrates, fact and fiction
- The Hippocratic Corpus
- The invention of medicine
- Part two, The Doctor's island: The Epidemic books
- 'On Thasos, during autumn...'
- The Thasian context
- Building blocks of history
- Art, sport and office-holding
- Sex and street life
- Patients of quality
- Part three, The doctor's mind: By the bedside
- Filtered reality
- Retrospective diagnosis
- Philosophers and dramatists
- Epidemics and history
- Hippocratic impact
- From Thasos to Tehran.
