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:

van der Eijk, Philip.

Allies, Neil.

Series:

Studies in Ancient Medicine 40.

Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; v. 40

Standardized Title:

Selections. English. 2012

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hippocrates.

Galen.

Medicine, Greek and Roman--History.

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

Medicine, Greek and Roman--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (423 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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:

Preliminary Material / Philip van der Eijk

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

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?

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

General Index

Index of Passages Cited.

Notes:

Articles originally published in French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786613863447

9781283550994

1283550997

9789004232549

9004232540

OCLC:

808366430

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004232549 DOI

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access