Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome by Vivian Nutton

Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries

Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome

Vivian Nutton

224 pages paperback

4 editions

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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...

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