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The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire ハードカバー – 2013/8/8
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Susan P. Mattern
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The remarkable career of Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - 216) began as a provincial medic tending to wounded gladiators in Asia Minor. It ended at the very heart of Roman power as one of a small circle of court physicians to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. This is the first ever authoritative biography of this brilliant, audacious, and profoundly influential figure.
Like many Greek intellectuals living in the high Roman Empire, Galen was a prodigious polymath, writing on subjects as varied as ethics and eczema, grammar and gout. Indeed, he was highly regarded in his lifetime as much for his philosophical works as for his medical treatises, and his writings, published in twenty-two volumes, comprise one-eighth of all surviving classical Greek literature. From the later Roman Empire through the Renaissance, medical education would be based primarily on his works. Even up to the twentieth century, he would remain the single most influential figure in western medicine.
Susan Mattern presents a Galen possessed of breathtaking arrogance, fierce competitiveness (he once disembowelled a live monkey and challenged the physicians in attendance to replace its organs correctly), shameless self-promotion, and lacerating wit. Not just caustic and polemical, mocking his enemies and hurling abuse at them, Galen was also a brilliant critical thinker and rhetorical strategist. He is also credited with being the first physician with a good bedside manner. Relentless in pursuit of anything that would cure the patient, he insisted on rigorous observation and experiment. Even confronting one of history's most horrific events - a devastating outbreak of smallpox - he persevered, bearing patient witness to its predations, year after year.
Including intriguing character studies of Marcus Aurelius, Commodus (of Gladiator fame), Galen's family and close friends, several of his patients, not a few of his rivals, and the city of Rome at the apex of its power and decadence, The Prince of Medicine offers a deeply human and long-overdue portrait of one of ancient history's most significant and engaging figures.
Like many Greek intellectuals living in the high Roman Empire, Galen was a prodigious polymath, writing on subjects as varied as ethics and eczema, grammar and gout. Indeed, he was highly regarded in his lifetime as much for his philosophical works as for his medical treatises, and his writings, published in twenty-two volumes, comprise one-eighth of all surviving classical Greek literature. From the later Roman Empire through the Renaissance, medical education would be based primarily on his works. Even up to the twentieth century, he would remain the single most influential figure in western medicine.
Susan Mattern presents a Galen possessed of breathtaking arrogance, fierce competitiveness (he once disembowelled a live monkey and challenged the physicians in attendance to replace its organs correctly), shameless self-promotion, and lacerating wit. Not just caustic and polemical, mocking his enemies and hurling abuse at them, Galen was also a brilliant critical thinker and rhetorical strategist. He is also credited with being the first physician with a good bedside manner. Relentless in pursuit of anything that would cure the patient, he insisted on rigorous observation and experiment. Even confronting one of history's most horrific events - a devastating outbreak of smallpox - he persevered, bearing patient witness to its predations, year after year.
Including intriguing character studies of Marcus Aurelius, Commodus (of Gladiator fame), Galen's family and close friends, several of his patients, not a few of his rivals, and the city of Rome at the apex of its power and decadence, The Prince of Medicine offers a deeply human and long-overdue portrait of one of ancient history's most significant and engaging figures.
- 本の長さ320ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Oxford University Press
- 発売日2013/8/8
- 寸法16.1 x 2.69 x 24.2 cm
- ISBN-100199605459
- ISBN-13978-0199605453
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In sum, this book is an excellent recourse not only for scholars of Galen, but also for casual readers, undergraduates, and anyone interested in Greek medicine and the culture of the roman period. (Sophia Xenophontos, Latomus)
Susan Mattern's 2008 monograph Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing provided scholars with stimulating perspectives on Roman society, based on the numerous case histories related in Galen's works ... all sections of this book, are lucid and well investigated. Scholars who are not familiar with Mattern's earlier work on Galen, and students of the history of any period and at all levels, will profit greatly from this book. (Christina Kokkinia, Sehepunkte)
A competent, confident and frequently fascinating biography. (The Spectator)
[A] scholarly, gripping and often gory biography. (Andrew Robinson, History Today)
Having read this scholarly, gripping, and often gory biography, one appreciates, exquisitely, the author's conclusion that Galen, though "not necessarily a good man", could still be "a good doctor". (The Lancet)
Susan Mattern's 2008 monograph Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing provided scholars with stimulating perspectives on Roman society, based on the numerous case histories related in Galen's works ... all sections of this book, are lucid and well investigated. Scholars who are not familiar with Mattern's earlier work on Galen, and students of the history of any period and at all levels, will profit greatly from this book. (Christina Kokkinia, Sehepunkte)
A competent, confident and frequently fascinating biography. (The Spectator)
[A] scholarly, gripping and often gory biography. (Andrew Robinson, History Today)
Having read this scholarly, gripping, and often gory biography, one appreciates, exquisitely, the author's conclusion that Galen, though "not necessarily a good man", could still be "a good doctor". (The Lancet)
著者について
Susan P. Mattern is Professor of History at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. She is the author of a number of books on the ancient world, including Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate (1999), Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing (2008), and (as co-author) The Ancient Mediterranean World from the Stone Age to A.D. 600 (2004, also published by Oxford University Press). Aside from her professional interests in classical history, she enjoys rock climbing and yoga, and lives in Athens, Georgia with her two children.
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- 出版社 : Oxford University Press (2013/8/8)
- 発売日 : 2013/8/8
- 言語 : 英語
- ハードカバー : 320ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0199605459
- ISBN-13 : 978-0199605453
- 寸法 : 16.1 x 2.69 x 24.2 cm
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E. Alves
5つ星のうち4.0
Um bom livro sobre Galeno
2023年12月5日にブラジルでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Um bom livro para aqueles que se interessam pela figura de Galeno. A prioridade, no texto em questão, não são seus conceitos médicos, mas o ser humano, sua vida em Pérgamo e em Roma, seu pai, seus professores, seus amigos. Há também uma extensa bibliografia. Recomendo aos interessados em História da Medicina.
Meghan Macdonald
5つ星のうち5.0
I loved her book on Rome and the Enemy (used it ...
2017年5月29日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Susan Mattern's writing is both scholarly and fluid. I loved her book on Rome and the Enemy (used it when researching my MA thesis), and this was a delightful turn from what I'm familiar with into the world of a man focused on discovery. If you ever want to know about ancient medicine, this is a great place to start!
Caroline Lawrence
5つ星のうち5.0
Unputdownable account of Galen's life
2016年9月18日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Absolutely riveting read about the second century AD Roman doctor Galen. Mattern gives all the most interesting parts of his life: his father's prophetic dream that he should become a doctor, his first challenge during an Anthrax outbreak, his studies in Alexandria, his four year stint as a gladiator doctor, his triumphant arrival in Rome, his appointment as imperial antidote preparer, another plague and the terrible fire that caused him more grief than anything else in his life. One of the most readable books on Ancient Roman life at that period, I found it un-put-downable.
Daniel Putman
5つ星のうち5.0
Finding the man beyond the image
2014年11月5日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
This biography of Galen takes an often misunderstood figure and makes him a real human being. That sounds silly to say but I cannot count the number of times I have read where early modern medicine had to "overcome" Galen. There is a sense of course in which that is true. But "Galen" became synonymous in the popular mind with an image of entrenched dogmatism and wrong-headed theories in medicine. In some ways Galen has the same problem that Aristotle has. Both were wrong in many fundamental ways but, for their times, they laid the foundation for techniques that later would become standard, especially the technique of close observation of nature. What makes the cases of Galen and Aristotle especially ironic is that both these early thinkers who emphasized empirical observation became themselves the objects of stultified theories. Their most positive contributions - the technique of close attention to actual details and continuing to learn from observation - were ignored while their often wrong theories about what they saw and how to deal with it became deified. Susan Mattern brings Galen and all his strengths and weaknesses to life in a way that gets the modern reader to appreciate the historical facts about him. The book strikes a strong blow against the popular negative image of "Galen." It fleshes out the man, not what he became as an object of either worship or scorn from the Middle Ages into the modern world.
Mattern is a gifted writer. Her prose flows easily and her ability to combine biographical information with the environment in which Galen lived is superb. This is a rare commodity - a highly readable book about an ancient figure that both keeps close to the data and reads as smoothly as the biography of a modern figure. Galen's oversized ego (and incredible memory), his detestation of opposing figures who often posed as physicians (and his public competitions with them), his personal caring for his patients (often of the lower classes or slaves), his voluminous writings - all are covered in this book. I highly recommend this biography for anyone interested in the history of medicine or the culture of ancient Pergamum and Rome. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
Mattern is a gifted writer. Her prose flows easily and her ability to combine biographical information with the environment in which Galen lived is superb. This is a rare commodity - a highly readable book about an ancient figure that both keeps close to the data and reads as smoothly as the biography of a modern figure. Galen's oversized ego (and incredible memory), his detestation of opposing figures who often posed as physicians (and his public competitions with them), his personal caring for his patients (often of the lower classes or slaves), his voluminous writings - all are covered in this book. I highly recommend this biography for anyone interested in the history of medicine or the culture of ancient Pergamum and Rome. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
Ronald W Davies
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Worth the perseverance
2016年2月22日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Excellent and derailed coverage of the facts but there are numerous repetions of information throughout the book . Each chapter stands alone but there is considerable overlap amongst chapters . Reading this book simply for the information snd background I think the book would be much easier to read after a thorough editing . On the positive side this book exposes the reader I to invaluable information snd insights not only on Galen but the era surrounding his life