Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine

by Colin Webster

Book Overview

The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations.

Medicine is itself a type of technology, involving therapeutic tools and substances, and so one can write the history of medicine as the application of different technologies to the human body. In Tools and the Organism, Colin Webster argues that, throughout antiquity, these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226828778
• ISBN13: 9780226828770
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"