Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen: Selected Papers

by Jacques Jouanna

This volume makes available for the first time in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on medicine in the Graeco-Roman world. The papers cover more than thirty years of Jouanna's scholarship and range from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity. Part One studies the ways in which Greek medicine is related to its historical and cultural background (politics, rhetoric, drama, religion). Part Two studies a number...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004208593
• ISBN13: 9789004208599
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"