[PDF.23nb] The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

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 | #935023 in Books |  Oxford University Press, USA |  2013-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.50 x1.10 x9.40l,1.36 | File type: PDF | 368 pages

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||16 of 17 people found the following review helpful.| Fine biography of great doctor|By E. N. Anderson|I have a long fascination with Galen and his medicine. I was introduced to it by my PhD advisor, George Foster, and have worked on modern folk and traditional medicines derived from the Galenic tradition (Mexican, Near Eastern) or influenced by it (Chinese). As Mattern points out, Galen was probably the most influential think| ||Honorable Mention, 2013 Prose Awards, Classics & Ancient History Category||"In The Prince of Medicine, [Mattern] situates Galen in his broader intellectual and social milieu, tracing the education and career of a physician who was re

Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society. Susan Mattern's The Prince of Medicine offers the first authoritative biography in English of this brilliant, audacious, and profoundly influential figure.

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You easily download any file type for your device.The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire   |  Susan P. Mattern. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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