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S/N/29. To what extent was there a medical profession in the Roman world?

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2800
DATE:
2005
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29.99 GBP

A paper looking at Medicine in the Roman Empire between c.500BC and c.500AD with emphasis on the high empire, the reign of M.Aurelius and Galen's role as a physician as well as teaching and practice of medicine. The paper also looks at the social status of doctors and to what extent a homogeneous medical profession can be said to have existed.

 

KEYWORDS: n, extent, medical, profession, roman, world,