Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome

by Vivian Nutton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367357232
• ISBN13: 9780367357238
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.7"