Ancient Medicine by Vivian Nutton

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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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Thanks to community member Pertinax, we have added another review...

 

The entire review of Ancient Medicine by Vivian Nutton

Well, all I said was the real Homer might be a woman. So Viv Nutton suggests Homer might have been "deputy chief of medical staff at the siege of Troy"! I can't wait to read on. Thanks very much for that fascinating review, Pertinax.

Thanks to community member Pertinax, we have added another review...

 

The entire review of Ancient Medicine by Vivian Nutton

 

Well, all I said was the real Homer might be a woman. So Viv Nutton suggests Homer might have been "deputy chief of medical staff at the siege of Troy"! I can't wait to read on. Thanks very much for that fascinating review, Pertinax.

Perhaps she was Deputy Chief of Medical Staff?

A great review, Pertinax, of a fascinating subject - even though it may be more for the specialist. However, working in medicine myself, I doubt that I'd be put off by the specialist nature of the book. It may well be going onto my wishlist very soon.