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Paperback Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome Book

ISBN: 0367357232

ISBN13: 9780367357238

Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome

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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.

Nutton's wide-ranging study surveys Galen's early life and medical education, as well as his later career in Rome and his role as court physician for over forty years. It examines Galen's philosophical approach to medicine and the body, his practices of...

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