Galen on Anatomical Procedures


Book Description

This edition of Galen's Anatomical Procedures (c. AD 200) offers parts of book 9 and books 10-15.




Cutting Words - Polemical Dimensions of Galen's Anatomical Experiments


Book Description

Luis Alejandro Salas’ book, Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments, examines Galen’s experimental writing. In four case studies, it argues that Galen exploits writing as a surrogate for live performance and, in some cases, an improvement upon it.



















Galen and the World of Knowledge


Book Description

This study places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.







The Prince of Medicine


Book Description

This book is a biography of the physician Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216), who began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society. --From publisher's description.