Greek rational medicine : philosophy and medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians / James Longrigg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Longrigg, James, 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

Medicine, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ancient Greek medical thinkers were profoundly influenced by Ionian natural philosophy. This philosophy caused them to adopt a radically new attitude towards disease and healing. James Longrigg shows how their rational attitudes ultimately resulted in levels of sophistication largely unsurpassed until the Renaissance. He examines the important relationship between philosophy and medicine in ancient Greece and beyond, and reveals its significance for contemporary western practice and theory.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Pre-rational and irrational medicine in Greece and neighbouring cultures; 2 Ionian natural philosophy and the origins of rational medicine; 3 Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century I: Alcmaeon and the pre-Socratic philosophers; 4 Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century II: Pre-Socratic philosophy and the Hippocratic Corpus; 5 Post-Hippocratic medicine I: Medicine and the Academy; 6 Post-Hippocratic medicine II: Medicine from Lyceum to Museum; 7 Early Alexandrian medical science

Appendix: The role of the opposites in pre-Aristotelian physicsNotes; Bibliography; Index locorum; General index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-97366-7

1-134-97367-5

1-280-33119-4

9786610331192

0-203-03344-2

0-203-32835-3

9780203033449

OCLC:

52082962