In analyzing the factors that have improved health and enhanced longevity during the last three centuries, Thomas McKeown contends that nutritional, environmental, and behavioral changes have been and will be more important than specific medical measures, especially clinical or curative" measures. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Product Description: Robert Leigh offers a critical edition with translation into English, commentary and introduction of the pharmacological treatise "On Theriac to Piso" traditionally attributed to Galen. The focus of the work is on the question of authorship and Leigh seeks to show on textual, pharmacological, doctrinal and historical grounds that the attribution to Galen is at least highly problematic and probably mistaken...read more

Product Description: This book challenges the unchallenged methods in medicine, such as "evidence-based medicine" which claim to be, but often are not, scientific. It completes medical care by adding the comprehensive humanistic perspectives and philosophy of medicine...read more

Product Description: On the art of medicine, or de Arte, embodies as perhaps no other ancient text the full flower of the sophistic movement of the fifth century BCE. It is a rhetorical epideixis in which forensic oratory, philosophy, and medicine are woven into an ambitious display of sophistic polymathy...read more

Product Description: On presente ici un ensemble de travaux consacres a une discipline que l'on propose d'appeler histoire de la pensee medicale: par la, nous voulons marquer que notre but est de nous livrer non pas a une histoire de type positiviste de la medecine, mais a une reconstitution de l'imaginaire des medecins; c'est ce que Galien appelait philosophie medicale...read more