The prince of medicine : Galen in the Roman Empire
Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society. Susan Mattern's 'The Prince of Medicine' offers the first authoritative biography in English of this brilliant, audacious, and profoundly influential figure
Print Book, English, ©2013
Oxford University Press, New York, NY, ©2013
Biography
xx, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm
9780199767670, 9780199605453, 019976767X, 0199605459
809310104
Pergamum
Learning medicine
The gladiators
Rome
Anatomy, and Boethus
Marcus Aurelius, and the plague
Galen and his patients
The fire