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Galen and the World of Knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: Christopher Gill
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This study places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.
Galen
Language: en
Pages: 128
Authors: Jeanne Bendick
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-01 - Publisher: Bethlehem Books

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We know about Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine. But we owe nearly as much to Galen, a physician born in 129 A.D. at the height of the Roman Empire. Galen's a
Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Susan P. Mattern
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-11 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Galen is the most important physician of the Roman imperial era. Many of his theories and practices were the basis for medical knowledge for centuries after his
The Map of Knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 421
Authors: Violet Moller
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-21 - Publisher: Pan Macmillan

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'Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is readable.' – P
The Prince of Medicine
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: Susan P. Mattern
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This book is a biography of the physician Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216), who began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial As