Vivian Nutton

A very solid and impressively concise overview of Greek and Roman medicine between roughly the 8th century BCE and the 7th century CE. Vivian Nutton provides a very thorough analysis of the surviving textual and prosopographical evidence, with a focus on the social contexts which shaped them. The prose is dense and not necessarily elegant but I think still accessible (albeit the attempt to provide modern contextual parallels via reference to English towns like Torquay and "darkest Finchley" show more likely won't help many students outside of the UK). There are some odd digs at feminist historians, but this text is likely to be the first stop for any undergraduate student wanting to orient themselves in the field. show less