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Greek medicine from Hippocrates to Galen : selected papers /

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. Par...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jouanna, Jacques
Otros Autores: Eijk, Ph. J. van der (Philip J.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Colección:Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 40.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.