The anatomy of ancient Greece

The book is a rewarding read even for people from non-occidental backgrounds

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It’s an original way to examine the ancient Greek ecosystem as it delineates the shift by medical practitioners from attempts at inducing divine interventions to rational scientific analysis.

Devangshu Datta

5 min read Last Updated : Aug 24 2022 | 12:53 AM IST

The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates

Author: Robin Lane Fox

Publisher: Penguin

Pages: 402

Price: Rs 699

This is, on its own terms, a fascinating work of scholarship written in a dryly humorous, accessible style. But the title is misleading and most Indian readers would find it a little too narrow and occidental in scope.

The book is not about medicine, or even the evolution of medical theory. The author is a professor of Ancient History at New College, Oxford, and a leading scholar of classical Greek. He writes about the world of the ancient Greeks as mirrored in medical texts, and in the

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