{"product_id":"the-invention-of-medicine-robin-lane-fox","title":"The Invention of Medicine (Robin Lane Fox)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks even wrote of medicine as a newly discovered craft they had invented.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobin Lane Fox's remarkable book puts their invention of medicine in a wider context, from the epic poems of Homer to the first doctors known to have been active in the Greek world. He examines what we do and do not know about Hippocrates and his Oath and the many writings that survive under his name. He then focuses on seven core texts which give the case histories of named individuals, showing that books 1 and 3 belong far earlier than previously recognised. Their re-dating has important consequences for the medical awareness of the great Greek dramatists and the historians Herodotus and Thucydides. Robin Lane Fox pieces together the doctor's thinking from his terse observations and relates it in a new way to the history of Greek prose and ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis original and compelling book opens windows onto many other aspects of the classical world, from women's medicine to street-life, empire, art, sport, sex and even botany. It fills a dark decade in a new way and carries readers along an extraordinary journey form Homer's epics to the grateful heirs of the Greek case histories, first in the Islamic world and then in early modern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRobin Lane Fox\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and taught Ancient History at Oxford University from 1977 to 2014. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePagans and Christians\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eThe Unauthorized Version\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and many books on classical history, all of which have been widely translated, including \u003ci\u003eAlexander the Great\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), \u003ci\u003eThe Classical World\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eTravelling Heroes \u003c\/i\u003e(2008) and \u003ci\u003eAugustine: Conversions to Confessions \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), which won\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Wolfson Prize for History. He has been the gardening correspondent of the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e since 1970.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 432 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63454270194013,"sku":"K090379601","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/232070-9037960100001A.jpg?v=1771245204","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-invention-of-medicine-robin-lane-fox","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}