Greek medicine from Hippocrates to Galen selected papers / by Jacques Jouanna ; edited with a preface by Philip van der Eijk ; translated by Neil Allies.

Author/creator Jouanna, Jacques
Other author Eijk, Ph. J. van der (Philip J.)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill,
Descriptionxix, 403 p. ; 25 cm.
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Uniform titleWorks. Selections. English. 2012
SeriesStudies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; v. 40
Contents Part One. Classical Greek medicine in its Historical, Literary and Cultural Context -- 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 -- Part Two. Aspects of Hippocratic Medicine and Their Relationship to Greek Philosophical Thought -- 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? -- Part Three. The Reception of Hippocratic Medicine in Galen and in Late Antiquity -- 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 noteArticles originally published in French.
General noteIncludes index.
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LCCN 2012016074
ISBN9789004208599 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN9789004232549 (e-book)

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