Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine

by Colin Webster

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The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations.

Medicine is itself a type of technology, involving therapeutic tools and substances, and so one can write the history of medicine as the application of different technologies to the human body. In Tools and the Organism, Colin Webster argues that, throughout antiquity, these...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226828778

ISBN13:9780226828770

Release Date:November 2023

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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History Medical Medical Books Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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