Greek medicine from Hippocrates to Galen : selected papers / by Jacques Jouanna ; edited with a preface by Philip van der Eijk, translated by Neil Allies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jouanna, Jacques.

Contributor:

Eijk, Ph. J. van der (Philip J.)

Allies, Neil.

Brill Online Books and Journals.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Studies in ancient medicine

Studies in Ancient Medicine

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English. 2012

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Hippocrates.

Galen.

Medicine, Greek and Roman--History.

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

History.

Medicine, Greek and Roman--Philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Hippocrates.

Galen.

Genre:

Electronic books.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 403 pages).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

System Details:

text file

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.

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.

Notes:

Articles originally published in French.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Jouanna, Jacques. Selections. English. 2012. Greek medicine from Hippocrates to Galen.

ISBN:

9789004232549

9004232540

OCLC:

808366430

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.