{"product_id":"galen-a-thinking-doctor-in-imperial-rome-paperback","title":"Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVivian Nutton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNutton'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 prognosis and dissection, and his ideas about preventative medicine and drugs. A final chapter explores the continuing impact of Galen's work in the centuries after his death, from his pre-eminence in Islamic medicine to his resurgence in Western medicine in the Renaissance, and his continuing impact through to the nineteenth century even after the discoveries of Vesalius and Harvey. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGalen is the definitive biography this fascinating figure, written by the preeminent Galen scholar, and offers an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Galen and his work, and the history of medicine more broadly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVivian Nutton\u003c\/strong\u003e, FBA, is Professor emeritus of the History of Medicine at University College London, as well as Professor of the History of Medicine at the First Moscow State Medical University. He has published extensively on all aspects on medicine before the seventeenth century, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eAncient Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2012). He has edited and translated several treatises from the Galenic Corpus including \u003ci\u003eOn Prognosis\u003c\/i\u003e (1979), \u003ci\u003eOn My Own Opinions\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), and \u003ci\u003eOn Problematical Movements\u003c\/i\u003e (2011). His edition and translation of selections from the neglected \u003cem\u003eOn the Voice\u003c\/em\u003e is forthcoming in the journal \u003cem\u003eGalenos\u003c\/em\u003e. His recent studies of Renaissance Galenism include translations of \u003ci\u003ePrinciples of Anatomy according to Galen\u003c\/i\u003e by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius (Routledge, 2017) and \u003ci\u003eAn Autobibliography\u003c\/i\u003e by John Caius (Routledge, 2018). A general survey of European medicine from 1490 to 1628 is in progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 9.69 x 6.85 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52628868956467,"sku":"9780367357238","price":91.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/VjNNQkoyRFVPaEoySlAzR3hoWG9DZz09.webp?v=1762117080","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/galen-a-thinking-doctor-in-imperial-rome-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}