Book ID: CBB000850377

Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing (2008)

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Mattern, Susan P. (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: x + 279 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description A study of Galen's clinical practice, “the public, competitive, and masculine nature of medicine among the urban elite and...the relationship between clinical practice and power in the Roman household.” (from the publisher)


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Review Totelin, Laurence (2009) Review of "Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 647). unapi

Review Petit, Caroline (2009) Review of "Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing". Social History of Medicine (p. 197). unapi

Review Asper, Markus (2010) Review of "Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing". Classical World (p. 549). unapi

Review Cooper, Glen M. (2010) Review of "Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing". Classical Review (p. 400). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gurunluoglu, Aslin
Gurunluoglu, Raffi
Singer, Peter Nicholas
Shail, Andrew
Roselli, Amneris
Petit, Caroline
Journals
Galenos: Rivista di Filologia dei Testi Medici Antichi
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Publishers
Routledge
Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne
Palgrave Macmillan
Oxford University Press
K. G. Saur Verlag
Felice Le Monnier
Concepts
Medicine
Medicine and culture
Medicine and society
Medicine and gender
Primary literature (historical sources)
Manuscripts
People
Galen
Hippocrates of Cos
Constantinus Africanus
Ptolemy
Dioscorides, Pedanios
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Places
Rome (Italy)
Greece
United States
Germany
China
Mesopotamia
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