Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine by Colin Webster
Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine

Colin Webster

Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine

Colin Webster

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The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations. Medicine is itself a type of technology, involving therapeutic tools and substances, and so on...

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