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A preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine. Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek doctor put forward his clinical observations of individual men, women, and children in a collection of case histories known as the Epidemics. Among his working principles was the famous maxim "Do no harm." In The Invention of Medicine, acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox puts these
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Robin Lane Fox
- Publisher
- Basic Books, of Perseus Books Group, LLC
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780465093441
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Medical, Memoir, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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