Tools and the Organism – Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman

Name: Tools and the Organism – Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

Tools and the OrganismTechnology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine\nAuthor(s): Colin Webster\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226828770, 978-0226828770\nSynopsis\nThe first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations.\n Medicine is itself a type of technology, involving therapeutic tools and substances, and so one can write the history of medicine as the application of different technologies to the human body. In Tools and the Organism, Colin Webster argues that, throughout antiquity, these tools were crucial to broader theoretical shifts. Notions changed about what type of object a body is, what substances constitute its essential nature, and how its parts interact. By following these changes and taking the question of technology into the heart of Greek and Roman medicine, Webs.