Asklepios, medicine, and the politics of healing in fifth-century Greece : between craft and cult / Bronwen L. Wickkiser.
Pubblicazione:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins university press, c2008.
Descrizione fisica:
XIII, 178 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Translations and abbreviations. Introduction. 1. From practice to profession: the development of Greek medicine from the bronze age to the fifth century BC 2. Searching for a cure: the limits of medicine and the development of Asklepios' cult 3. Asklepios and his colleagues: doctors and divine healers 4. Documenting Asklepios' arrival in Athens 5. Asklepios and the topography of Athenian cult 6. Asklepios and Athenian empire. Conclusions. Notes. Bibliography. Index
