American classicist and historian — University of Georgia — author of The Prince of Medicine (on Galen) and Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing — who writes the most accessible popular accounts of ancient medicine.
Creates the accessible biography of Galen — The Prince of Medicine is the first widely accessible account of Galen of Pergamon (the most influential physician in Western history) for non-specialist readers.
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