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 Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, |
| Description | xix, 403 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Works. Selections. English. 2012 |
| Series | Studies 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 note | Articles originally published in French. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012016074 |
| ISBN | 9789004208599 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9789004232549 (e-book) |
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