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Galen on apodictics/
This book is dedicated to one of the topical issues of the history and philosophy of medicine--the analysis of the research method of Galen of Pergamon, an outstanding physician of Antiquity (2nd century AD). Galen's works, on the one hand, were the outcome of the Hippocratic tradition and its...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stuttgart :
Ibidem,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Studies in medical philosophy ;
7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Philosophical basis of Galen's medical doctrines
- 1.1 Galen's perspective on the Hippocratic tradition
- 1.2 The significance of the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle in shaping Galen's views
- 1.3 The doctrine of Homoiomereia as the foundation of Galen's views on the microstructure of tissue
- Chapter 2 Understanding Galen's clinical experience and apodeixis
- 2.1 The semiotics of diseases. Theory of pathogenesis as a reflection of the principle of causality
- 2.2 A comprehensive understanding of philosophical theory and medical practice
- 2.3 The unity of mind and body in Galen's medicine and philisophy
- Chapter 3 Anatomical dissections as evidence in a philosophical polemic
- 3.1 Galen's method of investigation
- 3.2 The Empiricist school as the opponent of the Hippocratic tradition
- 3.3 The structure of proof in Galen
- 3.4 Galen's understanding of the natural functions of the body as a realisation of the teleological principle
- 3.5 Galen's clinical practice and physiological experiments
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.