The invention of medicine : from Homer to Hippocrates
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Walworth-Seely Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
610.938 Lane Fox
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610.938 Lane Fox
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Physical Desc
xxvi, 404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"Originally published in 2020 by Allen Lane, Penguin Random House UK."--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (369-397) and index.
Description
"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."--Amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lane Fox, R. (2020). The invention of medicine: from Homer to Hippocrates (First US edition.). Basic Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lane Fox, Robin, 1946-. 2020. The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates. New York: Basic Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lane Fox, Robin, 1946-. The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates New York: Basic Books, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lane Fox, Robin. The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates First US edition., Basic Books, 2020.
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