Ancient Medicine by Vivian Nutton
May 31, 2007
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This is a dense and wide ranging work, with heavy annotation and a formidable bibliography. The earnest scholarship is to be expected from titles published by Routledge.
This is not a work for casual reading, though its structure allows one to move between major subject areas without reading all of the text. This is a work of considered scholarship and makes great efforts to give the reader intellectual and social bearings in the classical world,. The essence of the book is that it is the first large scale history of ancient medicine in a single volume since the Victorian era...
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