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Author Jouanna, Jacques

Title Greek medicine from Hippocrates to Galen : selected papers / by Jacques Jouanna ; edited with a preface by Philip van der Eijk ; translated by Neil Allies
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 403 pages)
Series Studies in ancient medicine ; 40
Studies in ancient medicine ; 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
Summary 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. Part One studies the ways in which Greek medicine is related to its historical and cultural background (politics, rhetoric, drama, religion). Part Two studies a number of salient features of Hippocratic medicine, such as dietetics, theories of health and disease and concepts of psychosomatic interaction, in relation to Greek philosophical thought. Part Three studies the reception of Hippocratic medicine, especially medical ethics and the theory of the four humours, in Galen and in late antiquity
Notes Articles originally published in French
Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Articles originally published in French
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Subject Galen.
Hippocrates.
SUBJECT Galen fast
Hippocrates fast
Subject Medicine, Greek and Roman -- History
Medicine, Greek and Roman -- Philosophy
Medicine -- History.
History, Ancient
History of Medicine
Greek World
history of medicine.
MEDICAL -- History.
HISTORY -- Civilization.
Medicine
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Medicine, Greek and Roman -- Philosophy
Medizin
Griechenland Altertum
Römisches Reich
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Eijk, Ph. J. van der (Philip J.)
LC no. 2019668037
ISBN 9004232540
9789004232549
Other Titles Works. Selections. English. 2012