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Title Ancient Greek medicine in questions and answers : diagnostics, didactics, dialectics / edited by Michiel Meeusen.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; volume 54
Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 54.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary "This volume provides a set of in-depth case studies about the role of questions and answers (Q&A) in ancient Greek medical writing from its Hippocratic beginnings up to, and including, Late Antiquity. The use of Q&A formulas is widely attested in ancient Greek medical texts, casting an intriguing light on its relevance for the medical art at large, and for ancient medical practice, education, and research in specific (diagnostics, didactics, dialectics). The book aims to break new grounds by exploring, for the first time, the wide complexity of this phenomenon while introducing a coherent approach. In so doing, it not only covers highly specialized medical treatises but also non-canonical authors and texts, including anonymous papyrus fragments and collections of problems"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Ancient Greek Medicine in Questions and Answers: A Short Introduction (Meeusen) -- Chapter 1. Questioning the Obvious: The Use of Questions and Answers in Assessing Consciousness in the Hippocratic Corpus (Pelavski) -- Chapter 2. Peripatetic and Hippocratic Seeds in Pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata 4: Raising Questions about Aristotle's Rejection of the Pangenesis Theory of Generation (Mayhew) -- Chapter 3. Author(s) and Reader(s) in the Supplementary Problems (Supplementa Problematorum) (Oikonomopoulou)
Chapter 4. Ps.-Alexander of Aphrodisias on Unsayable Properties in Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems (Meeusen) -- Chapter 5. Erotetic Logic, Uncertainty and Therapy: Galen and Alexander on Logic and Medicine (Gili) -- Chapter 6. La réponse du médecin: les rapports d'inspection médicale écrits en grec sur papyrus (Ier-IVe siècles) (Ricciardetto) -- Chapter 7. Definitions and Technical Terminology in the Erôtapokriseis on Papyrus (Bonati) -- Chapter 8. Digitizing Medical Papyri in Question-and-Answer Format (Reggiani)
Chapter 9. Questions on the Unseen: Alexander of Tralles' Patient Interaction (Mareri) -- Index Locorum -- Index Rerum Nominumque
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Subject Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Medicine -- Case studies.
Medicine.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Medicine -- History.
Greece, Ancient.
History.
history of medicine.
Genre/Form History.
Case studies.
Added Author Meeusen, Michiel, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Ancient Greek medicine in questions and answers. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9789004442672 (DLC) 2020038335
ISBN 9004442677 electronic book
9789004442672 (electronic book)
9789004437654 hardcover electronic book