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Books 2010: 72

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72. Mirko Grmek, Disease in the Ancient Greek World, trans. M. & L. Muellner, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore and London, 1989. (French edition 1983.)

The late Mirko Grmek pioneered the concept of pathocenosis in the history of medicine. This book takes ancient Greek medicine and discusses it primarily in terms of the diseases and the possible diagnoses available from the material - mainly the Hippokratic Epidemics, but with some reference to Aristotle and others. I'd have had more use from this book if I'd had a medical dictionary to hand throughout my reading, but it was interesting and informative, particularly the sections on purulent infections and tuberculosis.




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