Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

The healing hand: Man and wound in the ancient world.

MAJNO, Guido (1922 – 2010) PubMedCentral

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975.

Emphasizing surgery, this is an exceptionally imaginative and exquisitely designed and illustrated history of medicine in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China.

Facet Tags

Ancient
Asia & Pacific
Surgery & Anesthesia
Zoology & Animal Sciences

Subjects

ANCIENT MEDICINE › History of Ancient Medicine & Biology COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › China, People's Republic of COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Greece COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Italy SURGERY: General › History of Surgery

Catalog Metadata	Reference Information
Entry Number	#5813.10
Permanent Link	https://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/6961
Author Bio Link	PubMedCentral ↗
External URL	the-healing-hand-man-and-wound-in-the-ancient-world

Geographic Context

Publication place: Cambridge, MA

Mentioned in annotation: Rome