The Invention of Medicine
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Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great
fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is
celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic
Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding
statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks
even wrote of medicine as a newly discovered craft they had
invented.Robin Lane Fox's remarkable book puts their invention of
medicine in a wider context, from the epic poems of Homer to the
first doctors known to have been active in the Greek world. He
examines what we do and do not know about Hippocrates and his Oath
and the many writings that survive under his name. He then focuses
on seven core texts which give the case histories of named
individuals, showing that books 1 and 3 belong far earlier than
previously recognised.Their re-dating has important consequences
for the medical awareness of the great Greek dramatists and the
historians Herodotus and Thucydides. Robin Lane Fox pieces together
the doctor's thinking from his terse observations and relates it in
a new way to the history of Greek prose and ideas. This original
and compelling book opens windows onto many other aspects of the
classical world, from women's medicine to street-life, empire, art,
sport, sex and even botany.It fills a dark decade in a new way and
carries readers along an extraordinary journey form Homer's epics
to the grateful heirs of the Greek case histories, first in the
Islamic world and then in early modern Europe.
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Penguin Books ,
Robin Lane Fox
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Penguin Books,
Robin Lane Fox
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Slovart
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