Galen's humanistic medicine : the essay, quod optimus medicus / edited by Aileen R. Das [and nine other].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Das, Aileen R., 1986- editor.

Series:

Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Galen. Quod optimus medicus sit quoque philosophus.

Galen.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2023]

Summary:

The present volume offers an edition, updated English translation of, introduction to, and seven multi-authored contributions on Galen's small tract That the Best Doctor is also a Philosopher . The volume seeks to put Galen's text into conversation with recent interrogations of medicine's self-sufficiency - or disciplinary autonomy - in the Medical Humanities. As the title of the ancient work conveys and the essays in this volume unpack, Galen argues for a reenvisioning of medicine by making philosophy constitutive of his profession on the grounds that the latter's methods of reasoning, explanations of the natural world, and ethical directives enable the doctor to understand and treat the body in disease. In so doing, Galen expands medical knowledge at the expanse of instrumentalizing the philosophical.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Sapere

Preface to this Volume

Table of Contents

A. Introduction

Introduction: The Best Doctor-Philosopher (Aileen R. Das)

1. Origin Stories

2. Galen's Textual Edifice

3. The Text

4. Receptions

5. Textual Histories

6. Principles of Translation

7. A short note on the Greek text of Galen's QOM in this volume (Heinz-Günther Nesselrath)

B. Text, Translation and Notes

ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΟΤΙ Ο ΑΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΙΑΤΡΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ ( (Text by Heinz-Günther Nesselrath and Translation by Aileen R. Das)

Notes on the Translation (Aileen R. Das and Heinz-Günther Nesselrath [N.])

C. Essays

Galen's Plea for an "Understanding of Medicine": Ancient Lessons for Today's Practice (Florian Steger)

1. Introduction: How to Practice Medicine Well

2. Patient-Doctor Communication

3. Theory in Practice

4. Money and Medicine

5. An Empirical Approach

6. The Doctor-Philosopher, a Romantic Ideal?

Galen and Pergamon: The Role of Religion in Framing Medical Authority (Bronwen L. Wickkiser)

1. Religion

2. Asclepius, Physicians, and Pergamon

3. Galen and Asclepius

4. QOM and the Gods

Genre, Rhetoric, and Philosophical Discourse: A Rhetorical Analysis of Quod optimus medicus sit quoque philosophus (Todd Curtis)

1. Occasion and Exigency of QOM

2. Philosophical Discourse, Genre, and QOM

3. Hippocrates, Askesis, and the Rhetorical Topos in QOM

4. Conclusion

"Galen's Hippocrates" in That the Best Doctor is also a Philosopher (Ralph M. Rosen)

Galen between Medicine and Philosophy (Teun Tieleman)

Galen's Philosopher-Physician from Late Antiquity to the Arabic-Islamic World in ʿAbbāsid Times (Elvira Wakelnig)

The Arabic Translation of QOM: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq's That the Excellent Physician Must Be a Philosopher.

2. Medicine as the Noblest Science Allegedly according to Aristotle: ʿAlī ibn Rabban al‑Ṭabarī's Paradise of Wisdom on Medicine

3. The Physician as the True Imitator of God:Isḥāq ibn ʿAlī al‑Ruhāwī's The Good Manners of the Physician

4. The First Attested Arabic Quotations from QOM: Abū Bakr al‑Rāzī's On the Examination of the Physician and his Appointment

5. When Reality Catches Up: AAbū l‑Ḥasan al‑Ṭabarī's Hippocratic Treatments

6. Rejecting the Galenic Dictum: Ibn Hindū's Key to Medicine and the Guide for Students

7. The Physician Insofar as He Is a Physician Is No Philosopher: Ibn Sīnā's Canon on Medicine

8. Toward a Clear Separation between Philosophy and Medicine: Ibn Buḫtīšū's Epistle about Medicine and the Psychic States

9. Conclusion

Humanitas and the Galenic Doctor: Medicine, Philosophy, and Religion in the Renaissance (Caroline Petit)

1. Erasmus and Galen's Quod optimus medicus sit quoque philosophus

2. The Ideal Physician in the Renaissance

3. The Physician and Humanitas

4. Conclusion: The Ideal Doctor, Philosophy, and Religion

D. Appendices

I. Bibliography

1. Abbreviations

2. Editions, Commentaries, Translations

3. Articles, Monographs (and Editions of other Works)

4. List of Illustrations

II. Indices (Maria Gkamou and Andrea Villani)

1. Source Index (selection)

2. General Index

III. About the Authors of this Volume.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Das, Aileen R. Galen's Humanistic Medicine

ISBN:

9783161624360

OCLC:

1378937378