Greek medicine from Hippocrates to Galen : selected papers /

Greek medicine from Hippocrates to Galen : selected papers /

This volume makes available for the first time in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on medicine in the Graeco-Roman world. The papers cover more than thirty years of Jouanna's scholarship and range from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity. Par...

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Main Author: Jouanna, Jacques.

Other Authors: van der Eijk, Philip., Allies, Neil.

Format: eBook

Language: English
French

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine 40.
Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813.

Subjects:

Hippocrates.
Galen.
Medicine, Greek and Roman > History.
Medicine, Greek and Roman > Philosophy.

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Call Number: R138 .J685 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Philip van der Eijk
  • Egyptian Medicine and Greek Medicine
  • Politics and Medicine. The Problem of Change in Regimen in Acute Diseases and Thucydides (Book 6)
  • Rhetoric and Medicine in the Hippocratic Corpus. A Contribution to the History of Rhetoric in the Fifth Century
  • Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy
  • Disease As Aggression in the Hippocratic Corpus and Greek Tragedy: Wild and Devouring Disease
  • Hippocrates and the Sacred
  • Air, Miasma and Contagion in the Time of Hippocrates and the Survival of Miasmas in Post-Hippocratic Medicine (Rufus of Ephesus, Galen and Palladius)
  • Dietetics in Hippocratic Medicine: Definition, Main Problems, Discussion
  • Water, Health and Disease in the Hippocratic Treatise Airs, Waters, Places
  • Wine and Medicine in Ancient Greece
  • The Theory of Sensation, Thought and the Soul in the Hippocratic Treatise Regimen: Its Connections with Empedocles and Plato's Timaeus
  • At the Roots of Melancholy: Is Greek Medicine Melancholic?
  • Galen's Reading of Hippocratic Ethics
  • Galen's Concept of Nature
  • Galen's Reading of the Hippocratic Treatise The Nature of Man: The Foundations of Hippocratism in Galen
  • The Legacy of the Hippocratic Treatise The Nature of Man: The Theory of the Four Humours
  • General Index
  • Index of Passages Cited.