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Commonwealth Fund Publications: The Healing Hand : Man and Wound in the Ancient World by Guido Majno (1975, Hardcover)

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Author: Guido Majno. Title: The Healing Hand. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs, many in full color, and climaxing ten years of work,The Healing Hand is a spectacular recreation of man’s attempts to conquer pain and disease.

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Majno pieces together the difficulties people faced in the effort to survive injury, as well as the odd, chilling, or inspiring ways in which they rose to the challenge. In asking whether early healers benefited their patients or only hastened their demise, Majno uncovered surprising answers by testing ancient prescriptions in a modern lab.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674383303
ISBN-13
9780674383302
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2129803

Product Key Features

Author
Guido Majno
Publication Name
Healing Hand : Man and Wound in the Ancient World
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Commonwealth Fund Publications
Publication Year
1975
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
600 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
11.2in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
7.2in
Item Weight
54.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Series Volume Number
65
Reviews
Reading The Healing Hand is like going through a museum with a seasoned guide who not only points out the sights but relates innumerable anecdotes along the way., What vitality--a great laughing, learned, extroverted giant, dragging you with him on one of the most stimulating and entertaining journeys for a long while... This is just a great, astonishing book., I found Majno's work so absorbing that I was hardly able to put it down...This is a book for the serious reader as well as the browser...A splendid book., This beautifully illustrated, thoroughly referenced book certainly deserves recognition as an outstanding contribution to the history of medicine. Hopefully, physicians and historians will take advantage of its enjoyable wisdom., This is a work of feeling and passion...What Guido Majno has created after a decade of effort is a work of scholarship of the highest order, which reads with the facility of an adventure story that, in a way, it is., The author is a courageous and catholic amateur of history who delights in inference, an experimenter, a questioner and a cultivated writer of imagination, humor and compassion...His work is above all a delectable lesson in how to know the past., The book provides a broad panorama of disease and healing from prehistoric times to the era of Galen, told with wisdom, grace, wit and new insights. Its author approaches the history of illness and its therapy with a joy and enthusiasm that are infectious...So--hurry, buy, read and enjoy!
Table of Content
1. Prelude 2. The Asu (Mesopotamia) 3. The Swnw (Egypt) 4. The Iatros (Greece) 5. The Perfumes of Arabia 6. The Yang I (China) 7. The Vaidya (India) 8. Alexandria the Great 9. The Medicus (Rome) 10. Galen--and into the Night Bibliography Abbreviations and Phonetic Notations Notes to the Text Notes to the Illustrations Index
Copyright Date
1975
Topic
Ancient / General, Healing, History
Lccn
74-080730
Dewey Decimal
617.14093
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
20
Genre
Medical, History