The invention of medicine : from Homer to Hippocrates /
Lane Fox, Robin, 1946-
The invention of medicine : from Homer to Hippocrates / Robin Lane Fox. - First US Edition. - United States of America: Penguin Books, 2020. - xxviii, 404 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (369-397) and index.
Homeric healing -- Poetic sickness -- Traveling doctors -- From Italy to Susa -- The Asclepiads -- Hippocrates, fact and fiction -- The Hippocratic Corpus -- The invention of medicine -- 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 -- By the bedside -- Filtered reality -- Retrospective diagnosis -- Philosophers and dramatists -- Epidemics and history -- Hippocratic impact -- From Thasos to Tehran.
"Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek doctor put forward his clinical observations of individual men, women, and children in a collection of case histories known as the Epidemics. Among his working principles was the famous maxim "Do no harm." In The Invention of Medicine, acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox puts these remarkable works in a wider context and upends our understanding of medical history by establishing that they were written much earlier than previously thought. Lane Fox endorses the ancient Greeks' view that their texts' author, not named, was none other than the father of medicine, the great Hippocrates himself. Lane Fox's argument changes our sense of the development of scientific and rational thinking in Western culture, and he explores the consequences for Greek artists, dramatists and the first writers of history. Hippocrates emerges as a key figure in the crucial change from an archaic to a classical world."--
9780141983967 0141983965
Perseus Books Group, C/O Hachette Book Group USA 53 State st 9th Fl, Boston, MA, USA, 02109 SAN 200-2205
2020942472
Hippocrates.
Hippocrates.
Hippocrates.
Medicine, Greek and Roman--History.
Medicine--History.
History, Ancient
History of Medicine
M�edecine grecque et romaine--Histoire.
M�edecine--Histoire.
history of medicine.
HISTORY / Ancient / Greece.
HISTORY / Europe / Greece.
SCIENCE / History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients)
Medicine.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Medicine, Greek and Roman--History.
Medicine--History.
History.
R135 / LAN 2020
610.938
WZ 51 / .L266i 2020
The invention of medicine : from Homer to Hippocrates / Robin Lane Fox. - First US Edition. - United States of America: Penguin Books, 2020. - xxviii, 404 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (369-397) and index.
Homeric healing -- Poetic sickness -- Traveling doctors -- From Italy to Susa -- The Asclepiads -- Hippocrates, fact and fiction -- The Hippocratic Corpus -- The invention of medicine -- 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 -- By the bedside -- Filtered reality -- Retrospective diagnosis -- Philosophers and dramatists -- Epidemics and history -- Hippocratic impact -- From Thasos to Tehran.
"Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek doctor put forward his clinical observations of individual men, women, and children in a collection of case histories known as the Epidemics. Among his working principles was the famous maxim "Do no harm." In The Invention of Medicine, acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox puts these remarkable works in a wider context and upends our understanding of medical history by establishing that they were written much earlier than previously thought. Lane Fox endorses the ancient Greeks' view that their texts' author, not named, was none other than the father of medicine, the great Hippocrates himself. Lane Fox's argument changes our sense of the development of scientific and rational thinking in Western culture, and he explores the consequences for Greek artists, dramatists and the first writers of history. Hippocrates emerges as a key figure in the crucial change from an archaic to a classical world."--
9780141983967 0141983965
Perseus Books Group, C/O Hachette Book Group USA 53 State st 9th Fl, Boston, MA, USA, 02109 SAN 200-2205
2020942472
Hippocrates.
Hippocrates.
Hippocrates.
Medicine, Greek and Roman--History.
Medicine--History.
History, Ancient
History of Medicine
M�edecine grecque et romaine--Histoire.
M�edecine--Histoire.
history of medicine.
HISTORY / Ancient / Greece.
HISTORY / Europe / Greece.
SCIENCE / History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients)
Medicine.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Medicine, Greek and Roman--History.
Medicine--History.
History.
R135 / LAN 2020
610.938
WZ 51 / .L266i 2020