Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome

ISBN-13: 9780367357238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 210 str.

Vivian Nutton

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Galen the Greek 2. Galen the Roman 3. Galen the Observer 4. Galen the Thinker 5. Galen the Doctor 6. Galen the Ghost Conclusion

O autorze

Vivian Nutton, FBA, is Professor emeritus of the History of Medicine at University College London, as well as Professor of the History of Medicine at the First Moscow State Medical University. He has published extensively on all aspects on medicine before the seventeenth century, and is the author of Ancient Medicine, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2012). He has edited and translated several treatises from the Galenic Corpus including On Prognosis (1979), On My Own Opinions (1999), and On Problematical Movements (2011). His edition and translation of selections from the neglected On the Voice is forthcoming in the journal Galenos. His recent studies of Renaissance Galenism include translations of Principles of Anatomy according to Galen by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius (Routledge, 2017) and An Autobibliography by John Caius (Routledge, 2018). A general survey of European medicine from 1490 to 1628 is in progress.