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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
