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Author Jouanna, Jacques.

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

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

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Description 1 electronic resource (xix, 403 pages).
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Series Studies in ancient medicine ; 40
Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 40.
Note Articles originally published in French.
Includes index.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Language Articles originally published in French.
Subject Galen.
Galen.
Hippocrates.
Hippocrates.
Medicine, Greek and Roman -- History.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
History.
Medicine, Greek and Roman -- Philosophy.
Medicine, Greek and Roman -- Philosophy.
MEDICAL -- History.
HISTORY -- Civilization.
Medizin.
Griechenland Altertum.
Römisches Reich.
Genre/Form History.
Added Author Eijk, Ph. J. van der (Philip J.)
Added Title Works. Selections. English. 2012 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012032672
Other Form: Print version: Greek medicine from Hippocrates to Galen Leiden ; Brill, 2012. 9789004208599 (hbk. : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2012016074
ISBN 9789004208599 hardback : acid-free paper
9789004232549 e-book
9004232540 (electronic book)
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