Cutting words : polemical dimensions of Galen's anatomical experiments /

"In Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen's Anatomical Experiments, Luis Alejandro Salas offers a new account of Galen's medical experiments in the context of the high intellectual culture of second century Rome. The book explores how Galen's written experiments operate al...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Salas, Luis Alejandro (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Colección:Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 55.
Temas:
Galen > Influence.
Galen > Criticism, Textual.
Galen
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Anatomy > History.
Vivisection > History.
Human experimentation in medicine > History.
Médecine grecque et romaine.
Anatomie > Histoire.
Vivisection > Histoire.
Expérimentation humaine en médecine > Histoire.
Human experimentation in medicine
Anatomy
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Vivisection
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Experiment and Experimental Writing
  • 1. A World of Text
  • 2. Demonstration: Instruction and Display
  • 3. The Physical Spaces of Public and Private Medical Performances
  • 4. Public and Private Demonstrations in Writing
  • 5. Antiquarianism and Galen's Doxographical Polemics
  • Chapter 2. Galen and Agonistic Anatomical Demonstration
  • 1. Credentialing and the Medical Marketplace
  • 2. Rome and the Centrality of Public Display
  • 3. Anatomical Procedures
  • 4. Agonism and Invasive Anatomical Display
  • 5. Prepared Extemporaneity
  • 6. The Intercostal Nerves
  • 7. Galen's Experiments on the Ureters and Ureterovesical Valves
  • 8. The Implicit Contest with Alexander
  • Chapter 3. Magnification and the Elephant
  • 1. Magnification and Analogy
  • 2. Analogy, Classification, and the Ancient Anatomical Tradition
  • 3. Elephants
  • 4. Aristotle, Teleology, and the Elephant's Trunk
  • 5. Teleology, Humoralism, and the Elephant's Gallbladder
  • 6. Analogy and Teleology
  • 7. Aristotle and Surrogate Targets
  • Chapter 4. Fighting with the Heart of a Beast: Galen's Use of the Elephant's Cardiac Anatomy against Cardiocentrists
  • 1. The Os Cordis
  • 2. The Agōn over the Heart
  • 3. Galen's Engagement with Aristotle
  • 4. Galen's Teleology and Cardiac Structure
  • Chapter 5. It Is Difficult Not to Write Anatomy: Galen on Erasistratus and the Arteries
  • 1. Maryllus the Mime-Writer and the Value of Anatomical Experience
  • 2. Claims of Knowledge and Refutations of Ignorance
  • 3. Compulsion of the Truth and the Anatomy of Deception
  • 4. A Polemic in Four Parts
  • Chapter 6. Galen and the Experiment on the Femoral Artery
  • 1. The Femoral Artery Experiment
  • 2. Capacities and Their Explanatory Powers
  • 3. Galen on the Simultaneous Movement of the Arteries
  • 4. Arterial Breathing and Pulmonary Respiration
  • 5. The Movement of the Blood
  • 6. Irrigation of the Body
  • 7. The Motile Properties of Blood and Pneuma
  • 8. The Femoral Artery Experiment in Its Galenic Context
  • Chapter 7. Drawing Blood: Galen's Use of the Arterial Experiment against Erasistratus
  • 1. Praxagoras and Some Rough Beginnings
  • 2. Pneuma
  • 3. Herophilus and an Emerging Tradition
  • 4. The Simultaneous Action of Arterial and Cardiac Movement
  • 5. Transpiration and the Arteries' Attraction of Material from All Around
  • 6. Erasistratus and Mechanism
  • 7. Erasistratus and Void
  • 8. Erasistratus, the Bird, and the Bear
  • 9. Erasistratus and the Femoral Artery Experiment
  • Chapter 8. De Galeni corporis fabrica: Writing Galen and the Greek Past in Vesalius' Fabrica
  • 1. Books and Book Production
  • 2. Vesalius' Appropriation of Galen's Polemical Strategies
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • General Index

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