The Invention of Medicine by Robin Lane Fox
The Invention of Medicine by Robin Lane Fox
SKU: B9780141983967 • Barcode: 9780141983967

The Invention of Medicine

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: Ancient history
  • Genre / subject: Classical history / classical civilisation
  • Author: Robin Lane Fox
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

The Invention of Medicine by Robin Lane Fox is a history book for adult readers.

A striking reappraisal of the beginnings of medicine, by one of the world's leading ancient historians Medicine 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.

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